O day of radiant gladness

Author (st. 1-2): Christopher Wordsworth

Christopher Wordsworth--nephew of the great lake-poet, William Wordsworth--was born in 1807. He was educated at Winchester, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A., with high honours, in 1830; M.A. in 1833; D.D. in 1839. He was elected Fellow of his College in 1830, and public orator of the University in 1836; received Priest's Orders in 1835; head master of Harrow School in 1836; Canon of Westminster Abbey in 1844; Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge in 1847-48; Vicar of Stanford-in-the-Vale, Berks, in 1850; Archdeacon of Westminster, in 1865; Bishop of Lincoln, in 1868. His writings are numerous, and some of them very valuable. Most of his works are in prose. His "Holy Year; or, Hymns for Sundays, Holidays, and other occ… Go to person page >

Author (st. 3): Charles P. Price

Charles P. Price wrote St. 3 of "O Day of Rest and Gladness" in Lutheran Service Book, 2006, # 906 Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: O day of radiant gladness
Author (st. 1-2): Christopher Wordsworth (1862, alt.)
Author (st. 3): Charles P. Price (1980, alt.)
Meter: 7.6.7.6 D
Source: The Hymnal 1982 (st. 4)
Language: English
Copyright: Stanza 3 © 1982 Charles P. Price; Stanza 4 © 1982 The Church Pension Fund

Tune

ES FLOG EIN KLEINS WALDVÖGELEIN

ES FLOG EIN KLEINS WALDVOGELEIN, a German folk tune, was first published in an early-seventeenth-century manuscript collection from Memmingen, Germany. It later became a setting for Christopher Wordsworth's (PHH 361) "O Day of Rest and Gladness" in George R. Woodward's Songs of Syon (1910 edition).…

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