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The holy monks conceal'd from men In midnight choir or studious cell, In sultry field or wintry glen, The holy monks, I love them well, In sultry field or wintry glen, The holy monks, I love them well. |
and No. 81, "Night" ("The red sun is gone," from the Breviary),
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The red sun is gone, Thou light of the heart, Blessed Three Holy One, To Thy servants a sun Everlasting impart. |
are also by him; and there may be others. And though this tune to No. 81 has been irreverently referred to as being "just like an old sailor's song," the same critic has extolled its effect, and told us how he loved to sing its long note at eventide. No. 61, "Conversion," is Father Faber's hymn, "I was wandering and weary" (No. 66 in the London Oratory Hymn Book[49]), but the original air in both Oratory books is the same, and the composition of Cardinal Newman.
