Come, ye people, rise and sing
Come, ye people, rise and sing. Cyril Argentine Alington* (1872-1955).
This hymn is found in the Eton College Hymn Book (1937), where it was set to a tune by Arthur Henry Brown*, ST JOHN DAMASCENE. This has been superseded by HAMPTON LUCY, by Walter Kendall Stanton*. The hymn expresses praise to the three persons of the Trinity, and the ‘threefold’ idea is expressed in each of the last three verses by a line consisting of a trio of adjectives. The rhyme scheme is one often used by Alington, with alternating single and double rhymes. Verse 1 is sometimes omitted, to produce a hymn beginning ‘Praise we God the Father’s name’. With this opening it is found in BHB and in The Moravian Hymn Book...
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