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500. God's own truth can never fail

Text Information
First Line: God's own truth can never fail
Alterer: DNS
Translator: John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
Translator: George R. Woodward (1849-1958)
Meter: 76.76.666.6
Language: English
Publication Date: 1983
Topic: Poetry, Folksong
Source: Composite and altered text by DNS from translations of two Latin originals (11th and 14th Centuries)
Copyright: © 1975 Dominican Nuns of Summit N.J.
Tune Information
Name: ECCE NOVUM GAUDIUM
Composer: Didrik Pederson of Äbo
Harmonizer: George R. Woodward (1848-1934)
Meter: 76.76.666.6
Key: G Major or modal
Source: Piae Cantiones, Greifswald (1582); Harm.: The Cowley Carol Book (1947)
Copyright: Harm. by permission of A. R. Mowbray and Company Ltd.
Notes: Public Domain



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