Flight into Egypt

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1 The Sav­ior, of the Vir­gin born,
Was in a hum­ble man­ger laid,
He, Lord of all, our flesh as­sumed,
By whom the heav­’ns and earth were made.

2 His life the ty­rant Her­od sought,
And ev­ery su­btle art did try;
To wor­ship Him he made pre­tense,
That he the In­fant might des­troy.

3 But powe­r di­vine His life pre­served,
And now He reigns above the sky;
To Him who once from Her­od fled,
Now mul­ti­tudes for safe­ty fly.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16070

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Author: Benjamin Beddome

Benjamin Beddome was born at Henley-in Arden, Warwickshire, January 23, 1717. His father was a Baptist minister. He studied at various places, and began preaching in 1740. He was pastor of a Baptist society at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, until his death in 1795. In 1770, he received the degree of M.A. from the Baptist College in Providence, Rhode Island. He published several discourses and hymns. "His hymns, to the number of 830, were published in 1818, with a recommendation from Robert Hall." Montgomery speaks of him as a "writer worthy of honour both for the quantity and the quality of his hymns." --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.… Go to person page >

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First Line: The Saviour, of the virgin born
Title: Flight into Egypt
Author: Benjamin Beddome (1818)
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Source: Appeared posthumously in Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton and Briggs,1818)
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
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CANONBURY

Derived from the fourth piano piece in Robert A. Schumann's Nachtstücke, Opus 23 (1839), CANONBURY first appeared as a hymn tune in J. Ireland Tucker's Hymnal with Tunes, Old and New (1872). The tune, whose title refers to a street and square in Islington, London, England, is often matched to Haver…

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