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ENFIELD (Chandler)

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Solomon Chandler Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 13332 55511 43211

Before the rosy dawn of day

Author: Elizabeth Rowe Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 20 hymnals Used With Tune: ENFIELD

O Lord, my heart cries out for thee

Appears in 20 hymnals Used With Tune: ENFIELD

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Before the rosy dawn of day

Author: Elizabeth Rowe Hymnal: The Sacred Harp #184 (1991) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Languages: English Tune Title: ENFIELD

O Lord, my heart cries out for thee

Hymnal: Carmina Sacra #126b (1841) Languages: English Tune Title: ENFIELD

1674 - 1737 Person Name: Elizabeth Rowe Author of "Before the rosy dawn of day" in The Sacred Harp Rowe, Elizabeth, née Singer, daughter of Walter Singer, an Independent Minister, was born near Frome, Somersetshire, in 1674; married in 1710 to Thomas Rowe, the poet; and died in Feb., 1737. Her works include Friendship in Death; Letters Moral and Entertaining, and Devoute exercises of the Heart (which was revised and published by Dr. Watts). Her Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse, which included some of her husband's poems, together with her Hymns and Versions of Psalms, was published posthumously in 1739. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ======================= Rowe, Elizabeth, p. 925, i. From Mrs. Rowe's Miscellaneous Works, &c, 1739, the following hymns are taken:— 1. Begin the high celestial strain. Praise to God. 2. Lord, what is man that he should prove? The Love of God. 3. The glorious armies of the sky. Praise to God. 4. To Thee, O God, my prayer ascends. God our Joy. For full biographical details, see the Biog. Britannia, v., or, Supplement of the Gospel Magazine, 1770, --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)