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)


WASHINGTON (55432)


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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