Let them offer on behalf of those creatures whose melody has been the joy of mankind since time began, the hymn `` Abide With Me ''.

At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.

Following the appropriation of the hymn in secular music, " Amazing Grace " became such an icon in American culture that it has been used for a variety of secular purposes and marketing campaigns, placing it in danger of becoming a cliché.

Passages from Habakkuk are quoted by authors of the New Testament, and its message has inspired modern Christian hymn writers.

Found in few hymnals today, the hymn has eight stanzas in common meter and is based on Revelation 5: 6, 8, 9, 10, 12.

A prime example of the monistic aspects of the late Rigveda is the Nasadiya sukta, a hymn describing creation: " That One breathed by itself without breath, other than it there has been nothing.

However, the odal hymn as used by others has a stronger unity among its parts, and Coleridge believed in writing poetry that was unified organically.

For example, the tune ' Austria ' ( originally Haydn's ' Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser ') is associated today with the hymn ' Glorious things of thee are spoken ', just as ' New Britain ' an American folk melody, believed to be Scottish or Irish in origin ; has since the 1830s been associated with ' Amazing grace '.

The hymn's Scottish or Irish melody is pentatonic and suggests a bagpipe tune ; the hymn is frequently performed on bagpipes and has become associated with that instrument.

Fresh material having come to light, a new edition of the poems ( Die Gedichte des Paulus Diaconus ) has been edited by Karl Neff ( Munich, 1908 ), who denies, however, the attribution to Paul of the most famous poem in the collection, the Ut queant laxis, a hymn to St. John the Baptist, which Guido d ' Arezzo fitted to a melody which had previously been used for Horace's Ode 4. 11.

Since 1997, the South African national anthem has been a hybrid song combining new English lyrics with extracts of the hymn Nkosi Sikelel ' iAfrika ( God Bless Africa ) and the former anthem Die Stem van Suid-Afrika ( The Call of South Africa ).

John XXII has traditionally been credited with having composed the prayer " Anima Christi, sanctifica me ...", which has come down to us in English as " Soul of Christ, sanctify me ..." and as the hymn, " Soul of my Saviour, sanctify my breast ".

( Pope Eugene IV raised a hymn as a praise that Christendom has been provided with a new defender after he heard of the battle.

By the promulgation of today's constitution, which has as its crown and summit a whole chapter dedicated to our Lady, we can rightly affirm that the present session ends as an incomparable hymn of praise in honor of Mary.

The Matins services for Holy Monday through Thursday are referred to as " Bridegroom Prayer " because the troparion of the day and the exapostilarion ( the hymn that concludes the Canon ) develop the theme of " Christ the Bridegroom " ( Thursday has its own troparion, but uses the same exapostilarion ).

As a hymn tune it has the title Thaxted, after the town in Essex where Holst lived for many years, and it has also been used for other hymns, such as " O God beyond all praising ".

*: The Adoration of the Cross, has a crucifix, not necessarily the one that is normally on or near the altar at other times, solemnly displayed to the congregation and then venerated by them, individually if possible and usually by kissing the wood of the cross, while hymns and the Improperia (" Reproaches ") with the Trisagion hymn are chanted.

The BBC has for many years introduced its 7 am News broadcast on Radio 4 on Good Friday with a verse from Isaac Watts ' hymn " When I Survey the Wondrous Cross ".

From 1995 that melody has been the provincial hymn of Pirkanmaa region at it is for sure one of the most widely known Finnish melodies.

The word, asurya, has been used 19 times as an abstract noun, while the abstract form asuratva occurs 24 times, 22 times in each of the 22 times of one hymn and twice in the other two hymns.

This part of the poem has been made into a hymn.

The Great Auditorium has over the years featured famed hymn writer Fanny Crosby, band leader John Philip Sousa, and tenor Enrico Caruso.

The hymn was translated into other languages as well: while on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee sang Christian hymns as a way of coping with the ongoing tragedy, and a version of the song by Samuel Worcester that had been translated into the Cherokee language became very popular.

In recent years, the words of the hymn have been changed in some religious publications to downplay a sense of imposed self-loathing by its singers.

It is possible that the kenosis passage in Philippians 2: 5-11 may have been a Christian hymn that Paul quoted.

For example, the first ten verses of the Works and Days may have been borrowed from an Orphic hymn to Zeus ( they were recognised as not the work of Hesiod by critics as ancient as Pausanias ).

The ut – re – mi-fa-so-la syllables are taken from the initial syllables of each of the first six half-lines of the first stanza of the hymn Ut queant laxis, whose text is attributed to the Italian monk and scholar Paulus Diaconus ( though the musical line either shares a common ancestor with the earlier setting of Horace's " Ode to Phyllis " ( Odes 4. 11 ) recorded in the Montpellier manuscript H425, or may even have been taken from it.

It has been called " the first missionary hymn of Protestantism.

That the anthem is essentially a hymn has been the subject of controversy in recent times, but proponents point to the fact that Iceland has a state church and that Christianity is by far the most popular religion.

In Prudentius ( 4th century ) we find a hymn entitled " Ad incensum lucernæ " which, according to some critics, would appear to have been composed for the hour of the Lucernarium ( Arevalo, " Prudenti carmina ", I, 124, ed.

The people the Army sought to save, knew nothing of the hymn tunes or gospel melodies used in the churches, but " the music hall had been their melody school ".

Fragments 1 and 3 of the hymn have been preserved by Marcus Terentius Varro in his De Lingua Latina, 7. 26, 27, and fragment 2 by Quintus Terentius Scaurus in his De orthographia.

When employed in a hymn it is sometimes known as Austria.

The domestic film version featured no hymn ( see above ), the international version replaced the impelling " Onward, Christian Soldiers " with its battle-like imagery, employed in the play, with a more demure supplication.

In this rendering, carried to Israel by Spanish refugees before the days of Alkabetz, the hymn is chanted congregationally, the refrain being employed as an introduction only.

Because of his death and the hold mainstream Christianity had over the empire at the time, this was ultimately unsuccessful, but he did produce several works of philosophy and theology, including a popular hymn to the sun.

That same year, Webb performed live at the club Cinegrill, performing " What Does a Woman See in a Man " and introducing several additional new songs, including " Sandy Cove " and an old folk hymn, " I Will Arise ".

In one hymn ( X. 59 ), she is mentioned several times.

He also wrote several hymns ( Hymns Ancient and Modern New Standard contains seven ) of which perhaps the best known is the Easter hymn ' Alleluia, Alleluia, hearts to heaven and voices raise '.

There are several compositions of this hymn which are used in the Russian Orthodox Church and form one of the highlights of the Matins service on Good Friday.

Saint Romanus the Melodist had a dream of the Virgin Mary the night before the feast of the Nativity, and when he woke up the next morning, composed his first hymn " On the Nativity " and continued composing hymns ( perhaps several hundred ) to the end of his life.

The hymn has been sung to several tunes, but the familiar one is by Samuel A.

There were versions of the hymn in several languages of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ( e. g., Czech, Croatian, Slovene, Hungarian, Polish, Italian ).

The omission of the second stanza is consistent with several other loci of textual variation in the hymn in this respect: the passages which are most subject to change tend for the most part to be those that

been reprinted in several Roman Catholic hymn books set to the tune ' Hyfrydol.

One of several tunes known, inevitably, as " Love Divine ," that by Sir John Stainer, appeared with the hymn first

Loughborough Endowed Schools school hymn entitled " Our Father by whose servant ( s )" was created specifically for LES by Old Loughburian George Wallace Briggs and in more recent times has also been adopted as a school hymn by several other schools.

He wrote poetry in traditional forms, including Prologue, a blank-verse drama on the life of John Huss, as well as several hymn texts ( set to music by Dwight Gustafson and Joan Pinkston ) that are known to a wider fundamentalist community beyond the BJU campus.

The creation of the original hymn has been attributed to several people, including Bernard of Clairvaux ( 12th century ), Saint Venantius Fortunatus ( 6th century ) and Hermannus Contractus ( 11th century ).

Compère also wrote several settings of the Magnificat ( the hymn of praise to the Virgin Mary, from the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke ), as well as numerous short motets.

The hymn " Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep ", with words written in the 1830s by Emma Willard and tune by Joseph Philip Knight, was recorded several times around the start of the twentieth century, by the Original Bison City Quartet before 1894, the Standard Quartette in 1895, John W. Myers at about the same time, and Gus Reed in 1908.

CCM Magazine described the album as a " cage match pitting Aerosmith against Third Day ," and several reviewers praised the band's modern-rock rendition of the classic hymn " Amazing Grace.

Burleigh published several versions of the Negro spiritual " Deep River " in 1916 and 1917, and he quickly became known for his arrangements of spirituals for voice and piano ; one of his arrangements in Common Metre is the hymn tune " McKee ", used with John Oxenham's hymn In Christ There Is No East or West.

Swan, in 1848, The New Harp includes a mixture of hymn tunes, folk hymns, fuguing pieces, and anthems, along with several of Swan's original compositions.

Marcus Swan kept much of the material from The Harp of Columbia, but also included several tunes by popular hymn composer Lowell Mason and several of his own compositions.

The original song is actually the second verse of the hymn ; in 1928, Wilson wrote another verse at the request of several Aggie students who thought the original was too focused on the Aggies ' rivalry with the University of Texas.