All Hail, Thou Night, Than Day More Bright

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All hail, thou night, than day more bright

Author: Marc-Antoine Muret; Translator: William John Blew
Tune: MORWELLHAM
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 All hail, thou night, than day more bright,
Through whose mysterious shade,
In wondrous birth, arose on earth,
From bosom of pure maid,
The Sun new-born, a Star of morn,
Filling all the world with light!

2 He who alone, from Heaven’s high throne,
Rules all, and doth restore
To God’s embrace man’s fallen race,
Lies on a cottage floor,
Like Him that we, save poverty,
Have naught to call our own.

3 While o’er their sheep close watch they keep,
Those shepherds first receive
The heav’nly call, that doth to all
Great joy and gladness give—
The call from Heav’n to watchmen giv’n
That wake and never sleep.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #10698

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Author: Marc-Antoine Muret

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Translator: William John Blew

Blew, William John, M.A., son of William Blew, born April 13, 1808, and educated at Great Ealing School, and Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1830, and M.A., 1832. On taking Holy Orders, Mr. Blew was Curate of Nuthurst and Cocking, and St. Anne's, Westminster, and for a time Incumbent of St. John's next Gravesend. Besides translations from Homer (Iliad, bks. i., ii., &c.) and Æschylus (Agamemnon the King), and works on the Book of Common Prayer, including a paraphrase on a translation of the same in Latin, he edited the Breviarium Aherdonense, 1854; and published a pamphlet on Hymns and Hymn Books, 1858; and (with Dr. H. J. Gauntlett) The Church Hymn and Tune Book, 1852, 2nd ed. 1855. Tho hymns in this last work are chief… Go to person page >

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First Line:	All hail, thou night, than day more bright
Title:	All Hail, Thou Night, Than Day More Bright
Latin Title:	O nox vel medio splendidior die
Author:	Marc-Antoine Muret
Translator:	William John Blew
Meter:	8.6.8.6.8.6
Source:	Amiens Breviary
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain