Does anyone know about which hymn Hardy is talking here? I would just like to see the lyrics, but I am no good at hymns and when they were composed... It seems there are several versions now and I can't figure out which.
Anybody help?
Does anyone know about which hymn Hardy is talking here? I would just like to see the lyrics, but I am no good at hymns and when they were composed... It seems there are several versions now and I can't figure out which.
Anybody help?
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
"When I survey the Wondrous Cross", music by Mason, 1824, words by Isaac Watts, 1707. There was a tune before that, but I don;t know what. Hope that helps.
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Are you sure?
The reason why I ask is that Hardy mentions in his tale that the composer was a local fellow from Wessex who had recently composed it (Easter) and Jude goes to see him.
1824 seems a little early for that, certainly as the novel is set in 'modern' England with trains and everything... Unless, there was another melody made to the text.
I certainly would fit, though.
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
That's always possible, but I regret I don't know. Sorry. I'll have a look, and see what I can come up with. I can't have been Mason (the tune is called Rockingham), because he was American, so I'll do a bit more work.
Last edited by dafydd manton; 08-03-2010 at 11:41 AM.
Dafydd Manton, A Legend In His Own Lunchtime!!
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It rather looks like the hymn is purely fictitious. The only hymn of that name seems to have been written by an Irish wman who wasn't born until 1974, so it isn't that one.
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