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O God of our land! O land of our God! We praise your holy, holy name! From solar systems of the heavens, tied to thee is a wreath By your armies, a collection of the times. For to you, one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years a day, not more: eternity's lone small flower with trembling tears, that worships its own god and dies.
The original lyrics as printed in Blackwood's Magazine, 1821, are: O, the snow it melts the soonest when the winds begin to sing; And the corn it ripens fastest when the frosts are setting in; And when a woman tells me that my face she'll soon forget, Before we part, I wad a crown, she's fain to follow't yet.
Many sources state the song was the work of Joe Perkin (1809–1868), [3] a choirmaster at Holmfirth in the mid 19th century. [4] A local tradition maintained that Perkin lived at Cliffe near Holmfirth, was a woolsorter by profession, and was paid 2 guineas by the Holmfirth Choral Society for arranging the song.
" O Tannenbaum" (German: [oː ˈtanənbaʊm]; "O fir tree"), known in English as "O Christmas Tree", is a German Christmas song. Based on a traditional folk song that was unrelated to the holiday, it became associated with the traditional Christmas tree .
"The Holly and the Ivy" is a traditional British folk Christmas carol, listed as number 514 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The song can be traced only as far as the early nineteenth century, but the lyrics reflect an association between holly and Christmas dating at least as far as medieval times. The lyrics and melody varied significantly in ...
Drive me away and don't feel pity for me don't be afraid of what will become of me even if it snows or if it rains the wild flower does remain Don't keep me just out of sympathy I'm used to the cold I 'll manage the snow (too) I began nude I am heading on all alone My house is the street and my song is the pain Drive me away and don't feel pity ...
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The has been and is published in more than fifty hymnbooks, including those of a number of significant denominations, such as the Church of England; [1] the United Church of Canada [1] and the Presbyterian Church in Canada (Book of Praise 1972 version, as Thy hand, O God, has guided; [2] and the current Book of Praise 1997 version, as Your hand, O God, has guided [3]); the Evangelical Lutheran ...