Fold to thy heart thy brother

[venta]

Over on someone else's LJ, I've just been reading a comment about someone's school hymn. Which has just reminded me to muse what a bloody odd choice my school made.

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[venta]

The beauty of the predictability of hymntune meter means it doesn't matter I don't know that one - the words fit perfectly well to the tune of Onward, Christian Soldiers in my head :)

I have a near-incurable habit of making hymns rhyme; Victorian hymns bring out the words in me because their homonyms were often quite approximate. I'd have had to sing "have built our herit-age" to make it rhyme with age. Possibly also "Trinitay" in your St Patrick example, though without the rest of the words that might be just a red herring.

I still maintain that you can always spot choir-trained singers of hymns, because they take notice of all the commans and little brackety ellision things which most people ignore. "Where meek souls will receive him, still" is a good one to catch at Christmas time.

There's a similar one I can't right now call to mind in a popular wedding hymn - several of us (who didn't know each other) bonded over it a wedding a few years back while those who hadn't been harangued on the topic by choirmasters at an impressionable age looked vaguely baffled by the whole business :)

[j4]

I'd have had to sing "have built our herit-age" to make it rhyme with age.

Yep, that's how we sang it (the nature of the tune meant that you did sort of land quite heavily on the '-age' of 'heritage' anyway so it was a bit unavoidable).

Possibly also "Trinitay" in your St Patrick example, though without the rest of the words that might be just a red herring.

Ah no, it it rhymes with "three" further on. Words here (and I think that page plays audio at you if you haven't bvggered up your plugins like wot I have). The "Christ be with me, Christ within me" bit is the bit that gets a completely different tune.

Totally know what you mean about the commas and things in hymns. There's another one that always irks me when people get it wrong, but I can't remember it, may well be the same one you're thinking of. :) When I say "people get it wrong" I generally mean "people look at me funny when I sing through the bit where they're all taking a big breath".

"Where meek souls will receive him, still" is a good one to catch at Christmas time.

And it is nearly Christmas time for singing purposes!! :) We have already started work on the Christmas stuff in choir, but I always want to do more carols, I just can't get enough.

[exspelunca]

... provided you then sing "still the dear Christ enters in" all on one breathand, yes J4, you do get funny looks.