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Author: John H. Hopkins Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Alleluia! Christ is risen today Refrain First Line: Alleluia, Alleluia Text Sources: Carols, Hymns and Songs (New York: Church Book Depository, 1863)

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[Alleluia! Christ is ris’n today]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Henry Hopkins, Jr. Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 34373 21765 67671 Used With Text: Nature's Alleluia

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Nature's Alleluia

Hymnal: Carols, Hymns, and Songs #39 (1863) First Line: Alleluia! Christ is risen today Refrain First Line: Alleluia, Alleluia Languages: English Tune Title: [Alleluia! Christ is risen today]

Nature's Alleluia

Hymnal: Carols, Hymns, and Songs #61 (1882) First Line: Alleluia! Christ is risen today Refrain First Line: Alleluia, Alleluia Languages: English Tune Title: [Alleluia! Christ is risen today]

Nature's Alleluia

Author: John H. Hopkins, Jr. Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #14546 First Line: Alleluia! Christ is ris’n today, Refrain First Line: Alleluia, alleluia Lyrics: 1 Alleluia! Christ is ris’n today, From the tomb in the garden wherein He lay; Shining angels raise their shout on high, And on earth we exultingly make reply: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, amen. Nature, too, that thro’ long dreary gloom, Lay embalmed in the shroud of her wintry tomb, Rises now to meet her rising Lord, And in myriad echo repeats the word: Refrain: Alleluia, alleluia, Alleluia, amen. 2 See the streamlet burst its icy chain! Leaping out into sunlight, it seeks the plain, And its joy in liquid tones it tells To the rocks and the woods and the winding dells: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, amen. Giant pines, whose broad, upreaching arms Bore the frosts and the snows of the northern storms, To the balmy breezes blowing now Give a murmuring whisper on every bough. [Refrain] 3 Little birds, that flew so far away, Now return with a sweet, merry, roundelay; Through the shady grove, in soft refrain, Lo, the voice of the turtle is heard again. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, amen. In the old church tower the swallows build, And their nests with the tenderest young are filled; And they join the chanting when they hear Both the organ and choir swelling loud and clear: [Refrain] 4 Now the primrose greets the daffodil, And the daisy is winking on every hill, And the pansy drinks the light of day, And the breath of the violet seems to say: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, amen. Now the Rose of Sharon opens wide, On the sunshiny banks of the mountain side; And the lily of the valley blooms, Filling every vale with its rich perfumes: [Refrain] 5 While the fields are clothed in beauty rare, Shall the altar of Jesu be cold and bare? Shall the Church no loving token show That the Risen above is to rise below? Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, amen. Round the altar let bright flow’rs be seen, With the fresh-budding branches of evergreen; Let the earth, with us, her incense bring, And the trees of the forest rejoice and sing: [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Alleluia! Christ is ris’n today]

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John H. Hopkins

1820 - 1891 Person Name: John H. Hopkins, Jr. Author of "Nature's Alleluia" in The Cyber Hymnal John Henry Hopkins, Jr MA USA 1820-1891. Born in Pittsburgh, PA, having 12 siblings, the son of pioneer parents (his father from Dublin, his mother from Hamburg) he became an ecclesiologist. His father had been an ironmaster, school teacher, lawyer, priest and second Episcopal Bishop of Vermont, (becoming presiding bishop in 1865). When his father founded the Vermont Episcopal Institute, he needed an assistant to help run it, so he picked his son to become a tutor and disciplinarian. The younger Hopkins played the flute and bugle in the school orchestra and also taught Sunday school. John Henry reflected the artistic talents of both parents in music, poetry, and art. After graduating from the University of Vermont in 1839, he returned to help his father with the school, but a financial crisis hit that year and the school had to close. He worked as a reported in New York City while studying law. He developed a throat ailment and went south to be in a warmer climate. From 1842-1844 he tutored the children of Episcopal Bishop Elliott of Savannah, GA, returning to take his M.A. from Vermont in 1845. He graduated from General Theological Seminary in 1850 and was ordained a deacon, serving as first instructor in church music at the Seminary. He founded and edited the “Church Journal” from 1853 to 1868. Interested in New York’s Ecclesiological Society, his artistic talents were apparent in designing stained-glass windows, episcopal seals, and a variety of other church ornaments. At the same time, his musical talents led to the writing and composing of a number of fine hymns and tunes, as well as anthems and services. He was ordained a priest in 1872, and was Rector of Trinity Church, Plattsburg, NY, from 1872-1876, then of Christ Episcopal Church in Williamsport, PA, from 1876-1887. He helped get the building debt paid off by 1879 with(in 10 years of its construction). During his time there a Sunday school building was also erected, having steam heat and a tiled floor. He designed some of the church furniture and bishop periphernalia as well as wrought iron tombs in Wildwood Cemetery. He also helped design two other church buildings in the area. A man of many talents, he was much beloved as a scholar, writer, preacher, controvertialist, musician, poet, and artist, excelling in all that he did. Totally devoted to his parish people, he especially loved children and was kind to anyone in need. He was considered very down-to-earth. He delivered the eulogy at the funeral of President Usysses S Grant in 1885. He was considered a great developer of hymnody in the Episcopal Church in the mid-19th century. His “Carols, hymns, and songs,”, published in 1863, had a 4th edition in 1883. In 1887 he edited “Great hymns of the church”. He wrote a biography of his father (the life of John Henry Hopkins, S.T.D.) He never married. He died at Hudson, NY. John Perry ======================= Hopkins, John Henry, D.D., Jun., son of J. H. Hopkins, sometime Bishop of Vermont, was born at Pittsburg, Pa., Oct. 28, 1820, educated at the University of Vermont, ordained in 1850, Rector of Christ's Church, Williamsport, Pa., 1876, and died at Troy, New York, Aug. 13, 1891. He published Poems by the Wayside written during more than Forty Years, N.Y., James Pott, 1883; and Carols, Hymns, and Songs, 1862; 3rd ed. 1882. Of his hymns the following are in common use: 1. Blow on, thou [ye] mighty Wind. Missions. 2. Come with us, O blessed Jesus. Holy Communion. 3. Glory to God the Father be. (Dated 1867.) Holy Trinity. 4. God hath made the moon whose beam. (Dated 1840.) Duty. 5. Lord, now round Thy Church behold. (Dated 1867.) For the Reunion of Christendom. These hymns are in his Poems by the Wayside, 1883. In the same volume there are translations of the O Antiphons. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ============== Hopkins, J. H., p. 1571, ii. The following additional hymns by him are in the American Hymnal, revised and enlarged .... Protestant Episcopal Church. . . U.S.A., 1892:— 1. God of our fathers, bless this our land. National Hymn. 2. When from the east the wise men came. Epiphany. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)