untitled [setting of "'Because He first loved us'"] [music unspecified]

untitled [setting of "'Because He first loved us'"] [music unspecified]

First line of lyrics: I was hungry, and Thou feddest me

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

1893 [publication]

London : Isbister and Company Ltd.

genre: hymn|song

chorus: congregational singing

origin: United Kingdom

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'Because He first loved us'"

Setting with unspecified music

Dedication: "To | Regenten House and Wintersdorf Girls | THERE and HERE"

Notes: In the preface, Mary S. Simon, the compiler of the Wintersdorf Hymnal, states: "To those Publishers, whose permission to print certain hymns contained in this volume has been granted on condition that that permission should be duly acknowledged, I accord my most grateful thanks: To . . . the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, for Nos. 141, 142, 143, 144, 145 . . . The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge requests me to emphasise the fact that it has granted me permission to use the five hymns of Miss Rossetti (141-5), in consideration only of Wintersdorf Hymnal being for private circulation." Later it specifies: "The Hymns of Miss Rossetti are also still within the covers of her latest volume, entitled 'The Face of the Deep'." At the end, Simon states that "The compilation of an accompanying Tune Book is in the process of completion, and it will be ready (in MS.) in the course of the Autumn. Many of the hymns are already webbed to music; others are in the hands of composers, and the whole is under the direction of Miss M. E. Greaves--a sufficient guarantee to all who known her of the quality of the work."

Format 1: lyrics

1 page

In reference to the published works below: Ives DM9

Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.

Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Lyrics: Wintersdorf Hymnal, compiled by Mary S. Simon, Isbister, 1893, p. 190-191, no. 143. HathiTrust, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100348904. Accessed 18 March 2022.

Record: CRM-becausehe-musicunspecified

File(s): CRM-becausehe-musicunspecified.pdf

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