Search me, O God, and know my heart today
Search me, O God, and know my heart today. J. Edwin Orr* (1912-1987).
Written Easter 1936, at a conference at Ngaruwahia, New Zealand. It was based on Psalm 139: 23-24. It had four stanzas in a 10.10.10.10. meter, and was written for ‘Swiss Cradle Song’, published by W.H. Paling and Co as a piano-variations piece (Brisbane, Australia, 1913), and attributed to Clement W. Scott (1841-1904), an English theatre critic. It has been erroneously described as a traditional Māori song called ‘Now is the hour’ a Māori folk melody, known as ‘Po Atarau’, used to say farewell to Māori soldiers leaving for World War I (Māori words were added in 1915, and at some point the words were translated into...
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