8376 | The Cyber Hymnal#8377 | 8378 |
Text: | O Night Of Nights, Supreme Delights |
Translator: | John C. Earle |
Tune: | YORK |
Composer: | John Milton, 1562-1647 |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 O night of nights, supreme delights,
Thy watches charm and bless;
And joys of Heav’n, profusely giv’n,
Refresh earth’s wilderness.
2 The sad, sick world through Eve lies furled
In clouds of death and night;
But God doth rise in human guise
To be its life and light.
3 Whom angels own as God alone,
Is clothed by mortal hands;
In cattle stall, the Lord of all
Sleeps clasped in swathing bands.
4 In cradle laid, His voice is stayed,
Who is th’eternal Word:
The sun grows pale, his forces fail;
What means all we have heard?
5 O shaft of love, to God above
A rock hewn home is giv’n:
Farewell ye stars; hail, crib and bars;
A manger is my heaven.
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First Line: | O night of nights, supreme delights |
Title: | O Night Of Nights, Supreme Delights |
Latin Title: | O ter fecundas, O ter jucundas |
Translator: | John C. Earle |
Meter: | CM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Sequence of Marburne, Order of St. Benedict, Abbot of Livry, 15th Century; Tr.: Annus Sanctus (Vol. 1) by Orby Shipley (London and New York: Burns & Oates, 1884) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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Name: | YORK |
Composer: | John Milton, 1562-1647 |
Meter: | CM |
Key: | F Major or modal |
Source: | Scottish Psalter, 1615 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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MIDI file: | MIDI |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer Score |