Creator of the universe, We lift our minds

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Creator of the universe, We lift our minds

Author: J. Donald Hughes
Published in 7 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	LIFT HIGH THE CROSS

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Author: J. Donald Hughes

The author is a student at the Boston University School of Theology, and a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles. --Five New Hymns for Youth by Youth, 1955. Used by permission.… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Creator of the universe, We lift our minds
Author:	J. Donald Hughes
Meter:	8.6.8.6 D
Language:	English

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Tune

NOEL (Sullivan)

The tune NOEL (also used at 185) is also known as EARDISLEY or GERARD. Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b Lambeth, London. England. 1842; d. Westminster, London, 1900) adapted this traditional English melody (probably one of the variants of the folk song "Dives and Lazarus"), added phrases of his own to rec…

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BETHLEHEM (Fink)

WEYMOUTH (Ferris)

Theodore Parker Ferris (b. Port Chester, NY, 1908; d. 1972) composed WEYMOUTH in 1941 for H. C. Robbins's text "And Have the Bright Immensities"; the tune was published in The Hymnal 1940. Ferris named the tune for his summer hometown, Weymouth, Nova Scotia. Well-crafted with an effective rhythmic c…

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