Friend's Parting Hymn

Representative Text

1 Our souls, by love together knit,
Cemented, mixed in one;
One hope, one heart, one mind, one voice,
'Tis heav'n on earth begun.

Source: The Little Seraph: in seven character notes, for churches and Sunday-schools #29

Author: William Edward Miller

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Text Information

First Line: Our souls by love together knit
Title: Friend's Parting Hymn
Author: William Edward Miller
Language: English
Refrain First Line: A Savior let creation sing
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

Our souls by love together knit. From W. E. Miller's Original and Select Hymns, 1802.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Tune

GERALD (Spohr)


CORONATION (Holden)

Like MILES LANE (470), CORONATION was written for this text. Oliver Holden (b. Shirley, MA, 1765; d. Charlestown, MA, 1844) composed the tune in four parts with a duet in the third phrase. The tune, whose title comes from the theme of Perronet's text, was published in Holden's Union Harmony (1793).…

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ARLINGTON (Arne)


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