4959 | The Cyber Hymnal#4960 | 4961 |
Text: | Oh How Fair That Morning Broke |
Author: | John Ellerton |
Tune: | MORNING (Monk) |
Composer: | William Henry Monk |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. Oh how fair that morning broke,
When in Eden man awoke!
Beast and bird and insect bright
Reveled in the gladsome light;
God looked down from Heav’n above,
All was life and joy and love.
2. Ah! the doleful change when sin
Darkly, subtly entered in!
War and pestilence and dearth
Mar and sadden God’s fair earth;
Human sorrow fills the air;
Death is reigning everywhere.
3. Yet rejoice; for God on high
Hath not left His world to die!
God’s dear Son, with dying breath,
Broke the power of sin and death;
Christ the Tempter overthrew,
Christ is making all things new.
4. Lord, in me be sin subdued,
So may I with heart renewed,
Fight the fight and run the race,
Work in my appointed place,
Waiting for the glad new birth
Of Thy perfect Heav’n and earth.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Oh how fair that morning broke |
Title: | Oh How Fair That Morning Broke |
Author: | John Ellerton (1880) |
Meter: | 77.77.77 |
Language: | English |
Source: | This hymn was written March 13, 1880, for Mrs. Brock's 1881 Children's Hymn Book. |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | MORNING (Monk) |
Composer: | William Henry Monk (1871) |
Meter: | 77.77.77 |
Incipit: | 55133 21336 54323 |
Key: | D Major |
Source: | Scottish Hymnal, 1871 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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Adobe Acrobat image: | Adobe Acrobat image (Cyber Hymnal) |
MIDI file: | MIDI File (Cyber Hymnal) |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer score (Cyber Hymnal) |
XML score: | XML score |