Christians, awake! salute the happy morn
Christians, awake! salute the happy morn. John Byrom* (1692-1763).
The original manuscript of this hymn is in Chetham's Library, Manchester, with the words ‘Christmas Day. For Dolly’, the author’s daughter. She had asked for a poem for Christmas, probably knowing her father’s delight in rhyming on all conceivable occasions. She found this on her plate on Christmas Day 1749. The next Christmas a group of boys, led by John Wainwright*, sang the poem to Wainwright’s own tune, known as YORKSHIRE or STOCKPORT.
Since the original poem is in 52 lines in three irregular paragraphs of 16, 20 and 16 lines, it is impossible to tell how it was originally divided for singing to the six-line tune. A...
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