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Text:This Is the Night, Dear Friends
Author:Peter Abelard
Translator:Richard Lyman Sturch
Tune:INTERCESSOR
Composer:C. Hubert H. Parry

125d. This Is the Night, Dear Friends

Text Information
First Line: This is the night, dear friends, the night for weeping
Title: This Is the Night, Dear Friends
Latin Title: Haec nox, carissimi, nox illa flebilis
Author: Peter Abelard (1129)
Translator: Richard Lyman Sturch (1990)
Meter: 11.10.11.10
Language: English
Publication Date: 2024
Scripture:
Topic: Lent; Holy Week: Maundy Thursday
Copyright: ©1990 Stainer & Bell (admin. Hope Publ. Co.)
ONE LICENSE: 64754
Notes: Latin text by French theologian Peter Abelard, “Haec nox, carissimi, nox illa flebilis,” from Hymnarius Paraclitensis (1129), tr. by Anglican priest Richard Lyman Sturch, from Hymns and Congregational Songs 2 (1990).
Tune Information
Name: INTERCESSOR
Composer: C. Hubert H. Parry (1904)
Meter: 11.10.11.10
Incipit: 17655 61332 1
Key: a minor or modal
Notes: Tune INTERCESSOR by C. Hubert H. Parry, from Hymns Ancient & Modern (1904).



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