BEATITUDO

Stanza Arc

The narrative or theological arc traced by this tune's stanzas: From invocation of God's eternal help, through affirmation of divine protection and timelessness, to meditation on human transience, concluding with renewed trust in God's constancy

Associated Hymn Texts (4)

• Blest Be the Tie that Binds — John Fawcett (1782)
• O Spirit of the Living God — James Montgomery (1823)
• O Thou Who Once in Galilee — William Cowper (1779)
• The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare — Joseph Addison (1712)

Set to This Tune in The Lutheran Hymnal (1)

• TLH 360 Oh, for a Thousand Tongues to Sing

Notes on the Tune

From Hymn Desk's analyses of the hymns sung to it.

TLH 360, Oh, for a Thousand Tongues to Sing : BEATITUDO (John B. Dykes, 1875) in TLH; AZMON (Carl G. Gläser, arr. Lowell Mason, 1839) in ELW.