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Sweet is the breath of morning air, Sweet is the dawn, when skies are fair

Author: Horace Smith Appears in 3 hymnals

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1810-1876 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 32117 11321 54332 Used With Text: Sweet Is the Breath of Morning Air

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Sweet Is the Breath of Morning Air

Author: Horace Smith, 1836-? Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #6061 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1. Sweet is the breath of morning air; Sweet is the dawn, when skies are fair; Sweeter by far than aught beside In God’s own favor to abide. 2. Blest be the gracious power above For all our rest, and all His love; For health preserved, for strength retained, For faith renewed, and hope regained. 3. Wake, and the song of joy up-raise; Wake, and resound Jehovah’s praise; Praise ye the God of death and night; Praise ye the Lord of life and light! 4. O, let Thy watchful care, dear Lord, Direct each deed, and mold each word; Check every thought that turns astray; And guide and guard us through the day. Languages: English Tune Title: MORNING (Wesley)

Sweet is the breath of morning air

Author: Horace Smith Hymnal: The Hymnary of the United Church of Canada #532 (1930) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Times and Seasons Morning Languages: English Tune Title: MORNING

Sweet is the breath of morning air

Author: Horace Smith Hymnal: The Hymnary for use in Baptist churches #532 (1936) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Times and Seasons Morning Languages: English Tune Title: MORNING

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Samuel Sebastian Wesley

1810 - 1876 Person Name: Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1810 - 1876 Composer of "MORNING" in The Hymnary of the United Church of Canada Samuel Sebastian Wesley (b. London, England, 1810; d. Gloucester, England, 1876) was an English organist and composer. The grandson of Charles Wesley, he was born in London, and sang in the choir of the Chapel Royal as a boy. He learned composition and organ from his father, Samuel, completed a doctorate in music at Oxford, and composed for piano, organ, and choir. He was organist at Hereford Cathedral (1832-1835), Exeter Cathedral (1835-1842), Leeds Parish Church (1842-1849), Winchester Cathedral (1849-1865), and Gloucester Cathedral (1865-1876). Wesley strove to improve the standards of church music and the status of church musicians; his observations and plans for reform were published as A Few Words on Cathedral Music and the Music System of the Church (1849). He was the musical editor of Charles Kemble's A Selection of Psalms and Hymns (1864) and of the Wellburn Appendix of Original Hymns and Tunes (1875) but is best known as the compiler of The European Psalmist (1872), in which some 130 of the 733 hymn tunes were written by him. Bert Polman

Horace Smith

1836 - 1922 Author of "Sweet is the breath of morning air" in The Hymnary of the United Church of Canada Smith, Horace, B.A., s. of Kobert Smith, of Westbourne Terrace, Hyde Park, London, was b. Nov. 18, 1836, and educated at King's College, London, and Trin. Hall., Camb. (B.A. in honours, 1860). Called to the Bar in 1862, he has held several important appointments, and has been a Metropolitan Police Magistrate since 1888. He has published several vols. on legal subjects, and Poems, 1897, Pilate's Wife's Dream, 1860, Poems, 1889, Interludes (three series), 1892, 1894, 1899, and Hymns & Psalms, 1903. His hymns in common use include:— 1. Glory to God, all the heavens are telling. [Holy Trinity.] Appeared in his Poems, 1897, and Hymns and Psalms, 1903. In Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1904, with the omission of st. v., vi. 2. Roll back the stone, for the Angel of God has descended. [Easter.] From his Poems, 1897, and Hymns and Psalms, 1903, into Hymns for the Use of New College (Oxford), 1900. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)