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Dictatorial redirects
I'm trying to find Wesley's original "Hark, how all the welkin rings" text, but the search engine keeps forcing me back to "Hark the herald angels sing", which is precisely what I want to get away from. It used to be I could figure out how to search for specific text forms here, but now I can't seem to get anything but the default general consensus texts. Would one of you experts mind telling me what sort of search terms I need to use to find "Hark, how all the welkin rings" without having to individually examine every one of the thousands of instances listed under "Hark the herald angels sing"??? I find I have to turn to Google to answer questions I used to be able to ansswer at hymnary.org. Very frustrating. Hoping there's an easy fix I'm just not thinking of.
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Cyber Hymnal has it
Come, Desire of nations, come,
Fix in us thy humble home;
Rise, the woman’s conquering seed,
Bruise in us the serpent’s head.
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Adam’s likeness, Lord, efface;
Stamp Thy image in its place.
Second Adam from above,
Reinstate us in thy love.
...these are the stanzas that I was looking for (though I didn't recall the precise words), and couldn't for the life of me get the Hymnary to cough up. But The Cyber Hymnal™ had 'em, I just had to scroll down...
Searching for specific instances of a text
What you are looking for is which hymnals have the original text which is now commonly known as "Hark, the herald angels sing". To find them among the thousands of other hymnal instances, under the "Select Result Type" menu, select "Hymn", then enter your first line in the Text Name search box. This will show you which hymnals have the original text. You can add a "Media" column, which will show you which of these hymnals have a page image.