Thanks for being a Hymnary.org user. You are one of more than 10 million people from 200-plus countries around the world who have benefitted from the Hymnary website in 2024! If you feel moved to support our work today with a gift of any amount and a word of encouragement, we would be grateful.

You can donate online at our secure giving site.

Or, if you'd like to make a gift by check, please make it out to CCEL and mail it to:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 3201 Burton Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
And may the promise of Advent be yours this day and always.

Open are the gifts of God

Representative text cannot be shown for this hymn due to copyright.
See page scan previews below.

Author: W. H. Vanstone

(no biographical information available about W. H. Vanstone.) Go to person page >

Tune

SONG 13

Orlando Gibbons (PHH 167) composed SONG 13 in soprano and bass parts. Used as a setting for a text from the Song of Songs, the tune was published in George Withers' Hymnes and Songs of the Church (1623) as hymn number 13 (hence the tune name). As in other hymnals, the melody is presented in a simpli…

Go to tune page >


Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 5 of 5)

Church Hymnary (4th ed.) #390

Hymnal Supplement II #15

Hymnal #255

Page Scan

Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise #390

Scripture Song Database #2694

Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.