We Will Rejoice and Be Glad In It

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This is the day the Lord hath made, O earth, rejoice and sing

Author: Harriet Auber
Published in 26 hymnals

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1 This is the day the Lord hath made:
O earth, rejoice and sing;
Let songs of triumph hail the morn;
Hosanna to our King!

2 The Stone the builders set at naught,
That Stone has now become
The sure foundation and the strength
Of Zion's heavenly dome.

3 Christ is that Stone, rejected once,
And numbers with the slain;
Now raised in glory, o'er his church
Eternally to reign.

4 This is the day the Lord hath made:
O earth, rejoice and sing;
Let songs of triumph hail the morn;
Hosanna to our King!

Source: The A.M.E. Zion Hymnal: official hymnal of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church #319

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Author: Harriet Auber

Auber, Harriet, daughter of Mr. James Auber, b. in London, Oct. 4, 1773. During the greater part of her quiet and secluded life she resided at Broxbourne and Hoddesdon, Herts, and died at the latter place on the 20th Jan., 1862. Miss Auber wrote devotional and other poetry, but only a portion of the former was published in her Spirit of the Psalms, in 1829. This collection is mainly her work, and from it some useful versions of the Psalms have been taken and included in modern hymn-books, about 20 appearing in Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book, 1866. Miss Auber's name is widely known, but it is principally through her exquisite lyric, "Our blest Redeemer, ere He breathed," and the Epiphany hymn, "Bright was the guiding star that led." (For criti… Go to person page >

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First Line:	This is the day the Lord hath made, O earth, rejoice and sing
Title:	We Will Rejoice and Be Glad In It
Author:	Harriet Auber
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Source:	Spirit of the Psalms
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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[This is the day the Lord hath made] (Ogden)

MERTON (Oliver)

ST. AGNES (Dykes)

John B. Dykes (PHH 147) composed ST. AGNES for [Jesus the Very Thought of Thee]. Dykes named the tune after a young Roman Christian woman who was martyred in A.D. 304 during the reign of Diocletian. St. Agnes was sentenced to death for refusing to marry a nobleman to whom she said, "I am already eng…

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