"Old-style Hymns by Modern Authors"

(I'm hoping this will grow to what the title says it is, but for now these are hymns written in the 1980s by Uncle Davey, never before published, and the links to Midi for the tunes all refer to www.cyberhymnal.org. The hymns pages that follow when you click the links below contain midi music files, which will start automatically and continue for the number of verses in the hymn. If you don't want that to happen, then press the 'stop' button - usually a red cross - on your browser tool bar when you start to hear the midi.)

Created 9th January 2004, back to start page or Go to Bulletin Board

(NB. The picture to the right was taken in 1985, concurrently with the hymns written by me in this collection.)
CONTENTS

1. "O Lord our God how great", Uncle Davey, 1985
2. "Royal Priesthood, Holy Nation", Uncle Davey, 1985
3. "Thou art the LORD who art highly exalted", Uncle Davey, 1985
4. "O Precious saviour, draw thee near", Uncle Davey, 1985
5. "O Lord of Hosts, I bow to Thee", Uncle Davey, 1985
6. "For me to live is Christ", Uncle Davey, 1985
7. "I sought the praise of sinners", Uncle Davey, 1985
8. "The Lord above is keeping His watch upon my soul", Uncle Davey, 1985
9. "The earth had once one speech o'erall", Uncle Davey, 1984
10. "O blest and only Potentate", Uncle Davey, 1986
Would you like your unpublished Hymns here together with mine? Send them to me, together with a link to the tune or the name of the tune, or a small audio file, and I would be pleased to host them if they are in the same vein as these. I would like in particular hymns which you have written but in the style of the older hymnwriters, with plenty of thees-and-thous, guerdons and languishing. Not only do I prefer this, but also there are plenty of other sites which cater for new modern Christian hymns and choruses, so I would prefer to dedicate this one to a revival of old style hymnwriting, but by contemporary authors. I will publish up to ten from each author. Please also give a little autobiography if you don't mind and the year, maybe even month and place you wrote the Hymn, and any notes you want to say about it.
As relates to Copyright, I am suggesting that publishers of hymn books may freely use the content here, as long as the source is acknowledged, and the editing kept to a bare minimum. If anyone else is put off submitting hymns because they want to keep their copyright more strictly than that, let me know, and that will be made clear next to each such Hymn you do decide to submit here.
You can also post your Hymns, of any style, up on the Bulletin Board

" I search the marches of my mother-tongue, a fitting form of sound and sense to find, and search the vaults of meaning in my mind to draft a verse that David might have sung. For David, that sweet psalmist of the Lord, was called a man made after God's own heart, and this it was that sanctified his art; that he loved God and dwelt upon His Word. However clever be the poet's strain, the assonance and structure, so sublime, how fine the rhythm, excellent the rhyme, 'twas none but God that gave the poet's brain. So let this lesser David also be - after Thine heart, and raising praise to Thee!" (Uncle Davey, 29th November 1988 & 16th April 2000, Hemel Hempstead and Warsaw)

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