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Author: James Hamilton Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Appears in 29 hymnals Matching Instances: 29 First Line: Across the sky the shades of night Topics: Times and Seasons Old and New Year Used With Tune: NUN FREUT EUCH

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ALLEIN GOTT IN DER HÖH'

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Appears in 210 hymnals Matching Instances: 7 Composer and/or Arranger: Nikolaus Decius Tune Key: f sharp minor Incipit: 13454 32333 23421 Used With Text: Across the Sky the Shades of Night

KÖNIGSEE

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Appears in 88 hymnals Matching Instances: 3 Tune Sources: Old German, 15th c. Incipit: 55557 65453 13456 Used With Text: Across the sky the shades of night

LUTHER'S HYMN

Appears in 340 hymnals Matching Instances: 2 Tune Sources: Joseph Klug's Geistliche Lieder, 1535 Incipit: 11321 22313 45321 Used With Text: Across the sky the shades of night

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Across the sky the shades of night

Author: James Hamilton, 1819-96 Hymnal: The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes #961 (1933) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Topics: Times and Seasons Opening and Closing of the Year Languages: English Tune Title: THE GOLDEN CHAIN

Across the Sky the Shades of Night

Author: James Hamilton, 1819-96; Gregory J. Wismar, b. 1946 Hymnal: Lutheran Service Book #899 (2006) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Lyrics: 1 Across the sky the shades of night This New Year's Eve are fleeting. We deck Your altar, Lord, with light, In solemn worship meeting: And as the year's last hours go by, We raise to You our earnest cry, Once more Your love entreating. 2 Before the cross subdued we bow, To You our prayers addressing, Recounting all Your mercies now, And all our sins confessing; Beseeching You this coming year To keep us in Your faith and fear And crown us with Your blessing. 3 We gather up in this brief hour The mem'ry of Your mercies: Your wondrous goodness, love, and pow'r Our grateful song rehearses: For You have been our strength and stay In many a dark and dreary day Of sorrow and reverses. 4 [Protected by copyright] 5 Then, gracious God, in years to come, We pray Your hand may guide us, And, onward through our journey home, Your mercy walk beside us Until at last our ransomed life Is safe from peril, toil, and strife When heav'n itself shall hide us. Scripture: Psalm 121:1 Languages: English Tune Title: ALLEIN GOTT IN DER HÖH

Across the sky the shades

Author: James Hamilton Hymnal: The Mennonite Hymnal #511 (1969) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 First Line: Across the sky the shades of night Topics: Times and Seasons Old and New Year Tune Title: NUN FREUT EUCH

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James Hamilton

1819 - 1896 Author of "Across the sky the shades" in The Mennonite Hymnal Hamilton, James, M.A., was born at Glendollar, Scotland, April 18, 1819, and educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Taking Holy Orders in 1845, he held various charges until 1866, when he became Incumbent of St. Barnabas's, Bristol. In 1867 he was preferred to the Vicarage of Doulting, diocese of Bath and Wells. Mr. Hamilton is the author of a few hymns of great merit. Of these the following are in common use:— 1. Across the sky the shades of night. New Year's Eve. "Written to the old chorale introduced by Mendelssohn into his St. Paul, ‘To God on High be thanks and praise.' " (Hymns Ancient & Modern, tune to 104 by Decius.) It is in Thring's Collection, 1882, &c. 2. O Jesu! Lord most merciful. Passiontide. Contributed to the People's Hymnbook, 1867. In the Hymnary, 1872, it was altered to "O Jesu, our Salvation, Low at Thy Cross," &c. This was repeated in the Parish Hymnbook, 1875, Thring's Collection, 1882, and others, and is the most popular form of the hymn. It was written to Hassler's Passion Chorale, as in Hymns Ancient & Modern, 111. 3. Praise, O praise the Lord of harvest. Harvest. Appeared in Thring's Collection, 1881 and 1882. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Nicolaus Decius

1485 - 1541 Person Name: Nicolaus Decius, c. 1485-after 1546 Composer (attributed to) of "ALLEIN GOTT IN DER HÖH" in Lutheran Service Book Decius, Nicolaus (Nicolaus a Curia or von Hofe, otherwise Hovesch, seems to have been a native of Hof, in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, and to have been originally called Tech. He became a monk, and was in 1519 Probst of the cloister at Steterburg, near Wolfenbüttel. Becoming favourable to the opinions of Luther, he left Steterburg in July, 1522, and went to Brunswick, where he was appointed a master in the St. Katherine and Egidien School. In 1523 he was invited by the burgesses of Stettin to labour there as an Evangelical preacher along with Paulus von Rhode. He became preacher at the Church of St. Nicholas; was probably instituted by the Town Council in 1526, when von Rhode was instituted to St. Jacob's; and at the visitation in 1535 was recognized as pastor of St. Nicholas'. He died suddenly at Stettin, March 21, 1541, with some suspicion of being poisoned by his enemies of the Roman Catholic faction (Koch, i. 419-421, 471, 472; ii. 483; Allg. Deutsche Biography, iii. 791-793).He seems to have been a popular preacher and a good musician. Three hymns are ascribed to him. These are versions of the “Sanctus," the "Gloria in excelsis," and the "Agnus Dei." The second and third are noted under these Latin first lines. He is also said to have composed or adapted the melodies set to them. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)