Hymn: Another Year completed

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Hymn: Another Year completed

2023-01-01T08:33:31+01:00

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1 Another year completed, The day comes round once more Which with our patron’s radiance Is bright as heretofore. Now, strong in hope, united His festival we greet; He will present our troubles Before the mercy-seat.2 The Scriptures tell how Moses Did for the people pray, Appeased the Judge eternal, And turned his wrath away; Elijah’s prayer had power, To close and open heaven; Such Saints as were aforetime, Such Saints to us are given.3 O saint of God, belovèd, And placed on his right hand, Thy prayers be like a rampart As ’gainst the foe we stand; For Abraham’s God is thy God, And Isaac’s God is thine, Thine is the God of Jacob, The Lord of power benign.4 For forty years his Israel He fed with Angels’ food; The flinty rock he opened The streams of water flowed. Entreat that Christ his people May lead to victory: The God of Joshua’s triumph The Lord thy God is he.Source: New English Praise: a supplement to the New English Hymnal #617

Translator: Athelstan Riley

Riley, John Athelstan Laurie, M.A., s. of John Riley, Mytholmroyd, Yorks, was born in London, Aug. 10, 1858, and educated at Eton and Pembroke College, Oxford (B.A. 1881, M.A. 1883).

He has been since 1892 a member of the House of Laymen of the Province of Canterbury. He was one of the compilers of The English Hymnal, 1906, and contributed to it seven translations from the Latin (34, 185, 193, 195, 213, 242, 321, with No. 97 previously published), and one from the Greek, beginning, “What sweet of life endureth,” from Iiola rod fiiov, p. 899, i., and the following originals: Come, let us join the Church above, Martyrs, Saints of God! Lo, Jesus people.

Author: St. Paulinus of Nola

Paulinus, Pontius Meropius. St. Paulinus of Nola, born at Bordeaux in 353, became Bishop of Nola in 409 and died circa 431. –John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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