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Lift up your heads, eternal gates
Appears in 56 hymnals Used With Tune: DUNDEE Text Sources: Tate and Brady
Lift up your heads, eternal gates
WINCHESTER OLD
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 320 hymnals Tune Sources: The Whole Book of Psalmes, by Thomas Est, 1592 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 13321 44323 55453 Used With Text: Lift Up Your Heads, Eternal Gates!
WINCHESTER OLD
Lift Up Your Heads, Eternal Gates!
Author: Nahum Tate; Nicholas Brady Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #3755 Meter: 8.6.8.6 First Line: Lift up your heads, eternal gates Lyrics: 1. Lift up your heads, eternal gates!
Unfold, to entertain
The King of glory; see!
He comes, with His celestial train.
2. Who is this King of glory—who?
The Lord, for strength renowned;
In battle mighty; o’er His foes
Eternal Victor crowned.
3. Lift up your heads, ye gates! unfold
In state to entertain
The King of glory; see! He comes
With all His shining train.
4. Who is this King of glory—who?
The Lord of hosts renowned:
Of glory He alone is King,
Who is with glory crowned. Languages: English Tune Title: WINCHESTER OLD
Lift Up Your Heads, Eternal Gates!
Lift up your heads, eternal gates
Hymnal: Hymnal #121 (1871) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 Lift up your heads, eternal gates,
Unfold to entertain
The King of Glory! see! He comes
With His celestial train.
2 Who is the King of Glory? who?
The Lord for strength renown'd;
In battle mighty; o'er His foes
Eternal Victor crown'd
3 Lift up your heads, ye gates; unfold,
In state to entertain
The King of Glory! see, He comes
With all His shining train.
4 Who is the King of glory? who?
The Lord of hosts renown'd;
Of glory He alone is King,
Who is with glory crown'd. Languages: English
Lift up your heads, eternal gates
Lift up your heads, eternal gates
Hymnal: The Psalmist #C17 (1843)
Lift up your heads, eternal gates
Nahum Tate
1652 - 1715 Author of "Lift Up Your Heads, Eternal Gates!" in The Cyber Hymnal Nahum Tate was born in Dublin and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. 1672. He lacked great talent but wrote much for the stage, adapting other men's work, really successful only in a version of King Lear. Although he collaborated with Dryden on several occasions, he was never fully in step with the intellectual life of his times, and spent most of his life in a futile pursuit of popular favor. Nonetheless, he was appointed poet laureate in 1692 and royal historiographer in 1702. He is now known only for the New Version of the Psalms of David, 1696, which he produced in collaboration with Nicholas Brady. Poverty stricken throughout much of his life, he died in the Mint at Southwark, where he had taken refuge from his creditors, on August 12, 1715.
--The Hymnal 1940 Companion
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Nahum Tate
Nicholas Brady
1659 - 1726 Author of "Lift Up Your Heads, Eternal Gates!" in The Cyber Hymnal Nicholas Brady, the son of an officer in the Royalist army, was born in Brandon, Ireland, 1659. He studied at Westminster School, and at Christ Church College, oxford, and graduated at Trinity College, Dublin. He held several positions in the ministry, but later in life retired to Richmond Surrey, where he established a school. Here he translated some of the Psalms. Several volumes of his sermons and smaller works were published, but his chief work, like that of his co-colabourer Tate, was the "Metrical Version of Psalms."
This version was authorized by King William in 1696, and has, since that time, taken the place of the earlier translation by Sternhold and Hopkins, which was published in 1562. The whole of the Psalms, with tunes, appeared in 1698, and a Supplement of Church Hymns in 1703. Of this version, which has little poetic merit, Montgomery says "It is nearly as inanimate as the former, though a little more refined." None of the "Metrical Psalms" are to be compared with the Psalms of the Prayer Book Psalter, and very few of them are worthy a place in a collection of hymns.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, 1872.
Nicholas Brady
Henry Lahee
1826 - 1912 Person Name: H. Lahee Composer of "NATIVITY" in Familiar Hymns Born: April 11, 1826, Chelsea, London, England.
Died: April 29, 1912, London, England.
Lahee studied under John Goss and William Sterndale Bennett. He played the organ at several churches, including Holy Trinity Church, Brompton (1847-74). He won prizes for his compositions in Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, and London, and set to music poems by Edgar Allen Poe ("The Bells"), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ("Building of the Ship") and Alfred Tennyson ("Sleeping Beauty"). His works include:
Metrical Psalter, with William Irons, 1855
Famous Singers of Today and Yesterday, 1898
One Hundred Hymn Tunes
Sources:
Frost, p. 680
CS Concordance, pp. 246-47
Nutter, p. 460
--www.hymntime.com/tch
Henry Lahee
