Bring, O morn, thy music

Bring, O morn, thy music. William Channing Gannett* (1840-1923). First published in A Chorus of Faith (Chicago, 1893). It is a considered Unitarian response to the Trinitarianism of Reginald Heber*’s ‘Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty’*, deliberately using Heber’s metre and some of his phrases. The tune used is that of Heber’s hymn, NICAEA, by John Bacchus Dykes*; and the fourth line of each of the stanzas is taken directly from Heber, preceded by three new lines, for example: Bring, O morn, thy music! Bring, O night, thy silence! Oceans, laugh the rapture to the storm-winds coursing free! Suns and planets chorus, ‘Thou art our Creator, Who wert and art, and evermore shalt be!’ Life and...