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Gather Around the Christmas Tree
Author: John H. Hopkins Appears in 31 hymnals First Line: Gather around the Christmas tree! Gather around the Christmas tree! Refrain First Line: Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest Text Sources: John H. Hopkins, Jr. Carols, Hymns and Songs (New York: Church Book Depository, 1863), pages 18-19
Gather Around the Christmas Tree
Around the Christmas Tree
Author: E. R. Latta Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Gather around the Christmas tree, Gifts for the many its branches hold Refrain First Line: Gather, gather, gather around the Christmas tree
Around the Christmas Tree
Gather Around the Christmas Tree
Author: Mrs. Estelle Oltrogge Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Gather around the Christmas-tree Refrain First Line: Gather, gather around Used With Tune: [Gather around the Christmas-tree]
Gather Around the Christmas Tree
[Gather around the Christmas tree]
Appears in 20 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Henry Hopkins, Jr. Tune Sources: Carols, Hymns and Songs (New York: Church Book Depository, 1863), pages 18-19 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 53213 51532 13251 Used With Text: Gather Around the Christmas Tree
[Gather around the Christmas tree]
[Gather around the Christmas tree!]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Harrison Tenney Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 55555 65122 22223 Used With Text: Around The Christmas Tree
[Gather around the Christmas tree!]
[Gather around the Christmas-tree]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Mrs. Estelle Oltrogge Incipit: 53154 56652 12654 Used With Text: Gather Around the Christmas Tree
[Gather around the Christmas-tree]
Gather around the Christmas Tree
Hymnal: Voices of Praise #347 (1883) First Line: Gather around the Christmas tree! Refrain First Line: Hosanna, Hosanna Lyrics: 1 Gather around the Christmas tree!
Gather around the Christmas tree!
Ever green
Have its branches been,
It is king of all the woodland scene;
For Christ, our King, is born to-day!
His reign shall never pass away,
Chorus:
Hosanna, Hosanna,
Hosanna in the highest!
2 Gather around the Christmas tree!
Gather around the Christmas tree!
Once the pride
Of the mountain side,
Now cut down to grace our Christmas-tide:
For Christ from heaven to earth came down,
To gain, through death, a nobler crown. [Chorus]
3 Gather around the Christmas tree!
Gather around the Christmas tree!
Every bough
Bears a burden now,--
They are gifts of love for us, we trow:
For Christ is born, His love to show,
And give good gifts to men below. [Chorus]
4 Farewell to Thee, O Christmas tree!
Farewell to Thee, O Christmas tree!
Thy part is done,
And Thy gifts are gone,
And thy lights are dying one by one:
For earthly pleasures die to-day,
But heavenly joy shall last alway. [Chorus]
5 Farewell to thee, O Christmas tree!
Farewell to thee, O Christmas tree!
Twelve months o'er,
We shall meet once more,
Merry welcome singing, as of yore:
For Christ now reigns, our Saviour dear,
And gives us Christmas every year! [Chorus]
Topics: C Languages: English Tune Title: [Gather around the Christmas tree]
Gather around the Christmas Tree
Gather Around the Christmas Tree
Author: John Henry Hopkins, Jr. Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #1705 Refrain First Line: Hosanna, hosanna Lyrics: 1. Gather around the Christmas tree!
Gather around the Christmas tree!
Evergreen have its branches been,
It is king of all the woodland scene;
For Christ our King is born today!
His reign shall never pass away.
Refrain
Hosanna, hosanna,
Hosanna in the highest!
2. Gather around the Christmas tree!
Gather around the Christmas tree!
Once the pride of the mountainside,
Now cut down to grace our Christmastide;
For Christ from Heav’n to earth came down,
To gain, through death, a nobler crown. [Refrain]
3. Gather around the Christmas tree!
Gather around the Christmas tree!
Every bough bears a burden now—
They are gifts of love for us, we trow;
For Christ is born, His love to show,
And give good gifts to men below. [Refrain]
4. Farewell to thee, O Christmas tree!
Farewell to thee, O Christmas tree!
Twelve months o’er, we shall meet once more,
Merry welcome singing, as of yore,
For Christ now reigns, our Savior dear,
And gives us Christmas every year! [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Gather around the Christmas tree]
Gather Around the Christmas Tree
Gather around the Christmas Tree
Hymnal: The Hymnal and Order of Service #636 (1926) Meter: 8.8.8.9.8.8 First Line: Gather around the Christmas tree! Refrain First Line: Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest! Lyrics: 1 Gather around the Christmas tree!
Gather around the Christmas tree!
Evergreen have its branches been,
It is king of all the woodland scene;
For Christ our King is born today!
His reign shall never pass away.
Refrain
Hosanna, Hosanna,
Hosanna in the highest!
2 Gather around the Christmas tree!
Gather around the Christmas tree!
Once the pride of the mountainside,
Now cut down to grace our Christmastide;
For Christ from heav’n to earth came down,
To gain, thro' death, a nobler crown. [Refrain]
3 Gather around the Christmas tree!
Gather around the Christmas tree!
Every bough bears a burden now,--
They are gifts of love for us, we trow;
For Christ is born, His love to show,
And give good gifts to men below. [Refrain]
4 Farewell to thee, O Christmas tree!
Farewell to thee, O Christmas tree!
Twelve months o’er, we shall meet once more,
Merry welcome singing, as of yore:
For Christ now reigns, our Saviour dear,
And gives us Christmas every year! [Refrain]
Amen. Topics: Children's Hymns; Christmas Day Languages: English Tune Title: EVERGREEN
Gather around the Christmas Tree
John H. Hopkins
1820 - 1891 Person Name: John Henry Hopkins, Jr. Author of "Gather Around the Christmas Tree" in The Cyber Hymnal John Henry Hopkins, Jr MA USA 1820-1891. Born in Pittsburgh, PA, having 12 siblings, the son of pioneer parents (his father from Dublin, his mother from Hamburg) he became an ecclesiologist. His father had been an ironmaster, school teacher, lawyer, priest and second Episcopal Bishop of Vermont, (becoming presiding bishop in 1865). When his father founded the Vermont Episcopal Institute, he needed an assistant to help run it, so he picked his son to become a tutor and disciplinarian. The younger Hopkins played the flute and bugle in the school orchestra and also taught Sunday school. John Henry reflected the artistic talents of both parents in music, poetry, and art. After graduating from the University of Vermont in 1839, he returned to help his father with the school, but a financial crisis hit that year and the school had to close. He worked as a reported in New York City while studying law. He developed a throat ailment and went south to be in a warmer climate. From 1842-1844 he tutored the children of Episcopal Bishop Elliott of Savannah, GA, returning to take his M.A. from Vermont in 1845. He graduated from General Theological Seminary in 1850 and was ordained a deacon, serving as first instructor in church music at the Seminary. He founded and edited the “Church Journal” from 1853 to 1868. Interested in New York’s Ecclesiological Society, his artistic talents were apparent in designing stained-glass windows, episcopal seals, and a variety of other church ornaments. At the same time, his musical talents led to the writing and composing of a number of fine hymns and tunes, as well as anthems and services. He was ordained a priest in 1872, and was Rector of Trinity Church, Plattsburg, NY, from 1872-1876, then of Christ Episcopal Church in Williamsport, PA, from 1876-1887. He helped get the building debt paid off by 1879 with(in 10 years of its construction). During his time there a Sunday school building was also erected, having steam heat and a tiled floor. He designed some of the church furniture and bishop periphernalia as well as wrought iron tombs in Wildwood Cemetery. He also helped design two other church buildings in the area. A man of many talents, he was much beloved as a scholar, writer, preacher, controvertialist, musician, poet, and artist, excelling in all that he did. Totally devoted to his parish people, he especially loved children and was kind to anyone in need. He was considered very down-to-earth. He delivered the eulogy at the funeral of President Usysses S Grant in 1885. He was considered a great developer of hymnody in the Episcopal Church in the mid-19th century. His “Carols, hymns, and songs,”, published in 1863, had a 4th edition in 1883. In 1887 he edited “Great hymns of the church”. He wrote a biography of his father (the life of John Henry Hopkins, S.T.D.) He never married. He died at Hudson, NY.
John Perry
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Hopkins, John Henry, D.D., Jun., son of J. H. Hopkins, sometime Bishop of Vermont, was born at Pittsburg, Pa., Oct. 28, 1820, educated at the University of Vermont, ordained in 1850, Rector of Christ's Church, Williamsport, Pa., 1876, and died at Troy, New York, Aug. 13, 1891. He published Poems by the Wayside written during more than Forty Years, N.Y., James Pott, 1883; and Carols, Hymns, and Songs, 1862; 3rd ed. 1882. Of his hymns the following are in common use:
1. Blow on, thou [ye] mighty Wind. Missions.
2. Come with us, O blessed Jesus. Holy Communion.
3. Glory to God the Father be. (Dated 1867.) Holy Trinity.
4. God hath made the moon whose beam. (Dated 1840.) Duty.
5. Lord, now round Thy Church behold. (Dated 1867.) For the Reunion of Christendom.
These hymns are in his Poems by the Wayside, 1883. In the same volume there are translations of the O Antiphons.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Hopkins, J. H., p. 1571, ii. The following additional hymns by him are in the American Hymnal, revised and enlarged .... Protestant Episcopal Church. . . U.S.A., 1892:—
1. God of our fathers, bless this our land. National Hymn.
2. When from the east the wise men came. Epiphany.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
John H. Hopkins
Anonymous
Person Name: Unknown Author of "Gather around the Christmas Tree" in The Junior Hymnal, Containing Sunday School and Luther League Liturgy and Hymns for the Sunday School In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
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E. R. Latta
1839 - 1915 Person Name: Eden Reeder Latta Author of "Around The Christmas Tree" in The Cyber Hymnal Rv Eden Reeder Latta USA 1839-1915. Born at Haw Patch, IN, the son of a Methodist minister, (also a boyhood friend of hymn writer Willam A Ogden) he became a school teacher. During the American Civil War he preached for the Manchester Methodist Church and other congregations (possibly as a circuit rider filling empty pulpits). In 1863 he married Mary Elizabeth Wright, and they had five children: Arthur, Robert, Jennie, two others. He taught for the public schools of Manchester, and later Colesburg, IA. He moved to Guttenberg, IA, in the 1890s, and continued writing song lyrics for several major gospel composers, including William Ogden, James McGranahan, James Fillmore, and Edmund Lorenz. He wrote 1600+ songs and hymns, many being widely popular in his day. His older brother, William, composed hymn tunes. He died at Guttenbert, IA.
John Perry
E. R. Latta
