He’s long had an interest in putting ancient words to music ... Fielding have reworked the lyrics so they fit neatly over a singable melody. Tomlin calls the song “a sacred gift passed ...

(RNS) — In the 1890s, a pair of British archaeologists began digging in an ancient ... of the words of the hymn were missing in the fragment. So he wrote a new translation of the lyrics that ...

The ancient hymn, known as "P.Oxy 1786," was discovered in the Egyptian sands of Oxyrhynchus in 1918 and is an 1,800-year-old hymn containing both ancient lyrics ... original 35 words and music ...

‘Jerusalem’ takes its words from a poem by William Blake and is often put forward as an alternative English national anthem. Here’s a look at its history, and lyrics. ‘And did those feet in ancient ...

Discover the history and lyrics of ‘Be Thou My Vision’ – one of the world’s oldest hymns with origins in 6th-century Ireland ... The below lyrics are the words most commonly found in the New English ...

More recently an argument that the Te Deum is part of an ancient Easter Vigil hymn has been proposed. The Te Deum (whose name is simply the first two words of the prayer itself, not unlike the ...

Dear Lord And Father Of Mankind came in at number two, although the American poet who wrote the hymn would be surprised at hearing his words lifting ... supporters of the Ancient and Modern ...