God from on high hath heard
God from on high hath heard. Charles Coffin* (1676-1749), translated by James Russell Woodford* (1820-1885).
This is a translation of Coffin’s ‘Iam desinant suspiria’*, a hymn that appeared in the Paris Breviary (1736) and in Hymni Sacri Auctore Carolo Coffin (1736). It was written for Matins on Christmas Day. Woodford’s translation dates from 1850, when he was working as a priest in Bristol. It was published in his Hymns arranged for the Sundays and Holy-Days of the Church of England (1852). The compilers of the First Edition of A&M (1861) turned it from a hymn in the metre 6.6.6.6. into Short Metre without consulting Woodford. As the Companion to RS (1999) points out (p. 220), the...
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