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THE WAITS' SONG
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 17 hymnals Tune Sources: English traditional Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 23212 34321 75123 Used With Text: Behold the Wretch Whose Lust and Wine
THE WAITS' SONG
While shepherds watched their flocks by night
Author: Nahum Tate, 1652-1712 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,116 hymnals Topics: God: His Attributes, Works and Word The Lord Jesus Christ - His Advent and Nativity; The Church The Sacraments - The Lord's Supper; Hymns for the Young The Lord Jesus - His Life and Death Used With Tune: HITCHEN CAROL
While shepherds watched their flocks by night
A Child For Us Is Born This Day
Author: Unknown Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 A child for us is born this day,
The angels’ king is He;
The Lord who over all has sway,
Nursed here vouchsafes to be.
2 In manger where the asses fed
The Child divine is laid;
Whom they as Christ acknowledgèd,
As King and Lord obeyed.
3 With joy the angels fillèd were,
And with the Lord do sing;
Glory to God above the sphere
In tuneful notes does ring.
4 Then Herod, who with fear was seized,
His envy great displays;
With slaughtered babes must be appeased,
Whose gore his fear allays.
5 Thou who wast born as on this day
Of virgin Mary pure,
Lead and conduct us in the way
To joys which e’er endure. Used With Tune: THE WAITS' SONG Text Sources: 15th Century or earlier
A Child For Us Is Born This Day
The Waits' Song
Appears in 12 hymnals First Line: The moon shines bright and the stars give a light Used With Tune: [The moon shines bright and the stars give a light]
The Waits' Song
The Moon Shines Bright
Author: John Cozens Hymnal: Carols of Christmas #15a (1946) First Line: The moon shines bright and the stars give a light Languages: English Tune Title: [The moon shines bright and the stars give a light]
The Moon Shines Bright
The moon shines bright and the stars give a light
Author: John Cozens Hymnal: Uncommon Christmas Carols #31 (1941) Tune Title: [The moon shines bright and the stars give a light]
The moon shines bright and the stars give a light
The Moon Shines Bright
Hymnal: Noëls #75 (1932) First Line: The moon shines bright and the stars give a light Languages: English Tune Title: [The moon shines bright and the stars give a light]
The Moon Shines Bright
Anonymous
Person Name: Anon. Author of "The moon shines bright, and the stars give a light" in The Australian Hymn Book with Catholic Supplement In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous
John Stainer
1840 - 1901 Person Name: Sir John Stainer Arranger of "[The moon shines bright and the stars give a light]" in Noëls
John Stainer
Nahum Tate
1652 - 1715 Person Name: Nahum Tate, 1652-1712 Author of "While shepherds watched their flocks by night" in The Book of Praise Nahum Tate was born in Dublin and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. 1672. He lacked great talent but wrote much for the stage, adapting other men's work, really successful only in a version of King Lear. Although he collaborated with Dryden on several occasions, he was never fully in step with the intellectual life of his times, and spent most of his life in a futile pursuit of popular favor. Nonetheless, he was appointed poet laureate in 1692 and royal historiographer in 1702. He is now known only for the New Version of the Psalms of David, 1696, which he produced in collaboration with Nicholas Brady. Poverty stricken throughout much of his life, he died in the Mint at Southwark, where he had taken refuge from his creditors, on August 12, 1715.
--The Hymnal 1940 Companion
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