Reginald Heber

Reginald Heber (April 21, 1783 - April 3, 1826) was an English bishop, now remembered chiefly as a hymn-writer.

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Hymns

• Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,
  Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid.
  • Epiphany, st. 1 (1811)

• By cool Siloam's shady rill
  How sweet the lily grows!
  • First Sunday After Epiphany, no. 2 (1812)

• The Son of God goes forth to war,
  A kingly crown to gain;
  His blood red banner streams afar:
  Who follows in His train?
  • The Son of God Goes Forth to War, st. 1 (1812)

• From Greenland's icy mountains,
  From India's coral strand,
  Where Afric's sunny fountains
  Roll down their golden sand.
  • Missionary Hymn, st. 1 (1819)

• Though every great prospect pleases,
  And only man is vile.
  • Missionary Hymn, st. 2 (1819)

• The heathen in his blindness
  Bows down to wood and stone.
  • Missionary Hymn, st. 2 (1819)

• Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty!
  Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee:
  Holy, Holy, Holy! Merciful and Mighty!
  God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity.
  • Holy, Holy, Holy! (1827)

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• Failed the bright promise of your early day.
  • Palestine.

• No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung;
  Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.

Majestic silence!

• • Palestine. Note: Altered in later editions to: "No workman’s steel, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung".

• When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.
  • Seventh Sunday after Trinity.

• Death rides on every passing breeze,
  He lurks in every flower.
  • At a Funeral, No. i.

• Thou art gone to the grave; but we will not deplore thee,
  Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb.
  • At a Funeral, No. ii.

• Thus heavenly hope is all serene,
  But earthly hope, how bright soe’er,
  Still fluctuates o’er this changing scene,
  As false and fleeting as ’t is fair.
  • On Heavenly Hope and Earthly Hope.

• • I see them on their winding way,
    About their ranks the moonbeams play.
  • Lines written to a March.

External links

• Reginald Heber's Hymns