The Quiet Hour

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Come ye yourselves apart and rest awhile (Bickersteth)

Author: Edward Henry Bickersteth (1872)
Published in 44 hymnals

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1 Come ye yourselves apart and rest awhile,
Weary, I know it, of the press and throng;
Wipe from your brow the sweat and dust of toil,
And in my quiet strength again be strong.

2 Come ye aside from all the world holds dear,
For converse which the world has never known,
Alone with me and with my Father here,
With me and with my Father not alone.

3 Come, tell me all that ye have said and done,
Your victories and your failures, hopes and fears;
I know how hardly souls are wooed and won;
My choicest laurels are bedewed with tears.

4 Then fresh from converse with your Lord, return
And work till daylight softens into even;
The brief hours are not lost in which you learn
More of your Master, and his rest in Heaven.

Source: The Song Book of the Salvation Army #564

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Author: Edward Henry Bickersteth

Bickersteth, Edward Henry, D.D., son of Edward Bickersteth, Sr. born at Islington, Jan. 1825, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. with honours, 1847; M.A., 1850). On taking Holy Orders in 1848, he became curate of Banningham, Norfolk, and then of Christ Church, Tunbridge Wells. His preferment to the Rectory of Hinton-Martell, in 1852, was followed by that of the Vicarage of Christ Church, Hampstead, 1855. In 1885 he became Dean of Gloucester, and the same year Bishop of Exeter. Bishop Bickersteth's works, chiefly poetical, are:— (l) Poems, 1849; (2) Water from the Well-spring, 1852; (3) The Rock of Ages, 1858 ; (4) Commentary on the New Testament, 1864; (5) Yesterday, To-day, and For Ever, 1867; (6) The Spirit of Life, 1868;… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Come ye yourselves apart and rest awhile (Bickersteth)
Title:	The Quiet Hour
Author:	Edward Henry Bickersteth (1872)
Language:	English
Notes:	Spanish translation: See "Venid a mí, venid a descansar" by Vernon L. Peterson
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

Come ye yourselves apart and rest awhile, Weary, I know it, &c. Bp. E. H. Bickersteth. [Ordination.] First printed in a small collection of the author's original hymns under the title of Songs in the House of Pilgrimage, n.d. [1872]; and also included, unaltered, in the author's Hymnal Companion, 1876.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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LANGRAN

LANGRAN (also known as ST. AGNES) was composed by James Langran (b. London, England, 1835; d. London, 1909) and first published by Novello in a pamplet in 1861 as a setting for the hymn text "Abide with Me." Several other texts have also been set to the tune, which is one of Langran's best. Sing it…

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MORECAMBE

MORECAMBE was composed in 1870 by Frederick C. Atkinson (b. Norwich, England, 1841; d. East Dereham, England, 1896) as a setting for Henry Lyte's "Abide with Me" (442). It was first published in G. S. Barrett and E.J. Hopkins's Congregational Church Hymnal (1887). The tune is named for a coastal tow…

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