O Lord, in Prayer You Spent the Night

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Alterer: Michael D. Schultz, b. 1963

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Author: Christopher Wordsworth, 1807-85

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 >

Text Information

First Line: O Lord, in prayer you spent the night
Title: O Lord, in Prayer You Spent the Night
Author: Christopher Wordsworth, 1807-85 (abr.)
Alterer: Michael D. Schultz, b. 1963
Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8
Publication Date: 1993
Copyright: Text: © 1993 Michael D. Schultz. Used by permission.

Tune

ST. PETERSBURG

Dmitri Stephanovich Bortnianski (b. Gloukoff, Ukraine, 1751; d. St. Petersburg, Russia, 1825) was a Russian composer of church music, operas, and instrumental music. His tune ST. PETERSBURG (also known as RUSSIAN HYMN) was first published in J. H. Tscherlitzky's Choralbuch (1825). The tune is suppo…

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Christian Worship (1993) #548

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