Tune: ILLUMINATIO

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ILLUMINATIO

Composer: George J. Elvey
Published in 15 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	HERITAGE HYMNS

Choral
	Five Choral Stanzas, Set 2

PowerPoint
	ROCK OF AGES (Celebration 342)

Composer: George J. Elvey

George Job Elvey (b. Canterbury, England, 1816; d. Windlesham, Surrey, England, 1893) As a young boy, Elvey was a chorister in Canterbury Cathedral. Living and studying with his brother Stephen, he was educated at Oxford and at the Royal Academy of Music. At age nineteen Elvey became organist and master of the boys' choir at St. George Chapel, Windsor, where he remained until his retirement in 1882. He was frequently called upon to provide music for royal ceremonies such as Princess Louise's wedding in 1871 (after which he was knighted). Elvey also composed hymn tunes, anthems, oratorios, and service music. Bert Polman Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	ILLUMINATIO
Composer:	George J. Elvey
Incipit:	33433 21267 5132
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

Rock of Ages

Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
let me hide myself in thee;
let the water and the blood,
from thy wounded side which flowed,
be of sin the double cure;
save from wrath and make me pure.

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Holy Father, Thou hast given

God, My Father, Hear My Pray

God, my Father, hear me pray,
Wash my crimson guilt away;
Wretched, helpless, lost, undone,
Hear me for Thy blessèd Son.
Lord, unnumbered sins are mine,
But eternal love is Thine.

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