O Blest Creator, Source of Light

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O blest Creator, source of light

Translator: Anne LeCroy (b. 1930, alt.)
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Translator: Anne LeCroy

Rev. Anne LeCroy was a professor of English at East Tennessee State University. Following her work as a translator she was a vocational deacon in the diocese of East Tennessee, serving St. Timothy's in Kingsport, and St. John's in Johnson City. Dianne Shapiro, from email sent by Rev. Margaret Zeller, Rector, St. Christopher's, Kingsport Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	O blest Creator, source of light
Title:	O Blest Creator, Source of Light
Translator:	Anne LeCroy (b. 1930, alt.)
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Language:	English

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VIENNA (Knecht)

BROMLEY (Haydn)

The tune BROMLEY is usually credited to Jeremiah Clarke (1674-1707) but there is an authorship problem: the first published use of the tune and setting was Franz Josef Haydn's "O let me in th'accepted hour," a metrical setting of Psalm 69 in Improved Psalmody (1794). The earliest extant version attr…

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