O Mother Dear, Jerusalem

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O Jerusalem Waŋkaŋtu

Author: Christopher Wordsworth; Translator: Daniel W. Hemans
Tune: AUTUMN (Barthélemon)
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Author: Christopher Wordsworth

Christopher Wordsworth--nephew of the great lake-poet, William Wordsworth--was born in 1807. He was educated at Winchester, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A., with high honours, in 1830; M.A. in 1833; D.D. in 1839. He was elected Fellow of his College in 1830, and public orator of the University in 1836; received Priest's Orders in 1835; head master of Harrow School in 1836; Canon of Westminster Abbey in 1844; Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge in 1847-48; Vicar of Stanford-in-the-Vale, Berks, in 1850; Archdeacon of Westminster, in 1865; Bishop of Lincoln, in 1868. His writings are numerous, and some of them very valuable. Most of his works are in prose. His "Holy Year; or, Hymns for Sundays, Holidays, and other occ… Go to person page >

Translator: Daniel W. Hemans

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First Line:	O Jerusalem Waŋkaŋtu
Title:	O Mother Dear, Jerusalem
Original Language:	English
Translator:	Daniel W. Hemans
Author:	Christopher Wordsworth
Source:	From "Book of Common Praise" by permission of A. S. Barnes & Co.
Language:	Dakota
Publication Date:	1951
Copyright:	This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1951.

Revelation 21:10
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AUTUMN (Barthélemon)

This tune is adapted from Barthélemon's piece Durandarte and Belerma: A Pathetic Scotch Ballad (1797). Some editors describe AUTUMN as "adapted from Psalm xlii in the Genevan Psalter, 1551", referring to the similarity between this tune and FREU DICH SEHR.

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