Our Lord, his passion ended

Our Lord, his passion ended. Francis Crawford Burkitt* (1864-1935). First published in Burkitt’s Three Hymns for Whitsuntide (1920). Burkitt, who was a fine musician, had written two hymns for old Dutch tunes, and this one for a tune from a German Roman Catholic book set to a Latin hymn, ‘Fortem virili pectore’. It was printed in the Church and School Hymnal (1926), and again in SofPE (1931). It came in to the A&M repertoire in A&MR (1950), when it was given a new tune, NAPHILL, by Harold Darke*, which helped to ensure its continued life. It is a meditation on the gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, with strong and insistent rhyming, turning from a narrative of the post-Ascension...