Morning has broken

Morning has broken. Eleanor Farjeon* (1881-1965). This hymn was written for SofPE to fit the tune BUNESSAN. According to Percy Dearmer*, ‘There being no known hymn in this short dactylic metre, and something being also wanted on the theme of Thanksgiving for each day as it comes, Miss Farjeon was asked to make a poem to fit the lovely Gaelic tune’ (Songs of Praise Discussed, 1933, p. 16). Anne Harvey (2013, p. 118) says that it was Martin Shaw* who asked her to write the hymn, but it is not known if it was Dearmer or Shaw who asked Farjeon to write the other three hymns by her in SofPE. This one was entitled ‘Thanks for a Day’. In 1957 it was included in Farjeon's collection, The Children’s...