Catholic Church Hymnal with Music #63
Display Title: Holy Ghost, come down upon thy children First Line: Holy Ghost, come down upon thy children Date: 1905
Catholic Church Hymnal with Music #63
First Line: | Holy Ghost, come down upon Thy children |
Author: | Frederick W. Faber |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Holy Ghost, come down upon Thy children. F. W. Faber. [Whitsuntide.] Appeared in his Oratory Hymns, 1854, and again in his Hymns, 1862, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, the opening stanza being repeated as a chorus. The metre is most awkward and unmusical, and fully justifies the alterations made in the Altar Hymnal, 1884, where it is rewritten in 8.7.8.7. metre, beginning "Holy Ghost, come down upon us."
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)