Songs of thankfulness and praise
Songs of thankfulness and praise. Christopher Wordsworth* (1807-1885).
First published in The Holy Year (1862) and revised in the 1863 edition. It was assigned to the sixth Sunday after Epiphany and was intended to recapitulate the successive manifestations of Christ presented in the preceding weeks, and to look forward to the ultimate epiphany of his second coming. The hymn was one of eight by Wordsworth included in the Appendix (1868) to A&M:
Songs of thankfulness and praise,Jesu, Lord, to Thee we raise,Manifested by the starTo the Sages from afar;Branch of royal David’s stemIn Thy Birth at Bethlehem;Anthems be to Thee addrest,God in Man made manifest.
Manifest at Jordan’s...
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