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TALLIS' LAMENTATION

Appears in 3 hymnals Tune Sources: Day's Psalter, 1563 Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 11217 17113 3217 Used With Text: Lament, O man, thy pride of life

Lament, O man, thy pride of life

Author: R. B. Appears in 1 hymnal Used With Tune: TALLIS' LAMENTATION Text Sources: Ver. 2 from Prudentius

Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: O Lord in thee is all my trust Lyrics: O Lord to thee is all my trust, give eare unto my wofull cry: Refuse me not that am unjust, but bowing down thy heavenly eye: Behold how I do still lament my sinnes wherein I do offend: O Lord for them shall I be shent, sith thee to please I do intend. No, no, not for thy will is bent, to deale with sinners in thine ire: But when in heart they shall repent, thou grantst with speed their just desire, To thee therefore still shall I crie, to wash away my sinfull crime: Thy bloud O Lord is not yet drie, but that it may help me in time. Haste thee o Lord, haste thee I say, to poure on me thy gifts of grace: That when this life shall flit away, in heaven with thee I may have place: Where thou dost raigne eternally, with God which once did down thee send Where Angels sing continually, to thee be praise world without end. Used With Tune: [O Lord in thee is all my trust]

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Lament, O man, thy pride of life

Author: R. B. Hymnal: Hymns #59 (1899) Languages: English Tune Title: TALLIS' LAMENTATION

The Lamentation

Hymnal: The Whole Booke of Psalmes #90b (1640) First Line: O Lord in thee is all my trust Lyrics: O Lord to thee is all my trust, give eare unto my wofull cry: Refuse me not that am unjust, but bowing down thy heavenly eye: Behold how I do still lament my sinnes wherein I do offend: O Lord for them shall I be shent, sith thee to please I do intend. No, no, not for thy will is bent, to deale with sinners in thine ire: But when in heart they shall repent, thou grantst with speed their just desire, To thee therefore still shall I crie, to wash away my sinfull crime: Thy bloud O Lord is not yet drie, but that it may help me in time. Haste thee o Lord, haste thee I say, to poure on me thy gifts of grace: That when this life shall flit away, in heaven with thee I may have place: Where thou dost raigne eternally, with God which once did down thee send Where Angels sing continually, to thee be praise world without end. Languages: English Tune Title: [O Lord in thee is all my trust]

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Robert Bridges

1844 - 1930 Person Name: R. B. Author of "Lament, O man, thy pride of life" in Hymns Robert S. Bridges (b. Walmer, Kent, England, 1844; d. Boar's Hill, Abingdon, Berkshire, England, 1930) In a modern listing of important poets Bridges' name is often omitted, but in his generation he was considered a great poet and fine scholar. He studied medicine and practiced as a physician until 1881, when he moved to the village of Yattendon. He had already written some poetry, but after 1881 his literary career became a full-time occupation, and in 1913 he was awarded the position of poet laureate in England. Bridges published The Yattendon Hymnal (1899), a collection of one hundred hymns (forty-four written or translated by him with settings mainly from the Genevan psalter, arranged for unaccompanied singing. In addition to volumes of poetry, Bridges also published A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing (1899) and About Hymns (1911). Bert Polman =================== Bridges, Robert Seymour, M.A., son of J. J. Bridges, of Walmer, Kent, was b. Oct. 23, 1844, and educated at Eton and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (B.A. 1867, M.A. 1874). He took his M.A. in 1874, but retired from practice in 1882, and now (1906) resides at Yattendon, Berks. He is the author of many poems and plays. He edition and contributed to the Yattendon Hymnal, 1899 (originally printed at the Oxford Univ. Press in parts—Nos. 1-25, 1895; 26-50, 1897; 51-75, 1898; 76-100, 1899). [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)