O word of pity, for our pardon pleading
O word of pity, for our pardon pleading. Ada Rundall Greenaway* (1867-1931)
Hymns Ancient and Modern, Historical Edition (1909) notes, referring to A&M (1904), that this hymn ‘is here published for the first time’ (p. 183); but whether or not it was written for the 1904 edition is not clear (though the copyright, 1904, was held by the Proprietors of A&M).
It was given a remarkable tune by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry*, one of the members of the music committee. He called the tune, appropriately, INTERCESSOR (for a note on the tune see the entry on Parry). The word ‘Intercessor’ looks back to ‘interceding’ (stanza 1), and begins Greenaway’s final stanza:
O Intercessor, who art ever...
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