Summer suns are glowing
Summer suns are glowing. William Walsham How* (1823-1897).
This was one of four seasonal hymns written by How (one on spring in collaboration with his sister Frances Jane, later Frances Jane Douglas, 1829-1899) for inclusion in the SPCK Church Hymns (1871) which he co-edited with John Ellerton*: the others were
‘For all Thy love and goodness, so bountiful and free’, on spring;
‘The year is swiftly waning’, on autumn;
'Winter reigneth o’er the land’, on winter.
Each uses the season to draw a simple moral. ‘Summer suns are glowing’ is by far the most popular. It had four stanzas:
Summer suns are glowing Over land and sea,Happy light is flowing Bountiful and free.Everything rejoices In the...
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