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258. Morning Has Broken

Text Information
First Line: Morning has broken
Title: Morning Has Broken
Author: Eleanor Farjeon (1931)
Meter: 55.54D
Language: English
Publication Date: 1998
Source: Enlarged Songs of Praise, 1931
Copyright: © 1957 Harold Ober Associates, Inc., (in conjunction with David Higham Associates, Ltd.)
ONE LICENSE: 118118
Tune Information
Name: BUNESSAN
Harmonizer: David Evans (1927)
Meter: 55.54D
Key: C Major
Source: Traditional Gaelic melody; Harm. Revised Church Hymnary, 1927
Copyright: Harm. © 1927 by permission of Oxford University Press


Text Information:

Eleanor Farjeon, English Catholic author and poet, wrote this hymn at the request of Percy Dearmer, editor of the 1931 hymnbook Enlarged Songs of Praise


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