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Thread #24662   Message #629279
Posted By: Haruo
16-Jan-02 - 06:01 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Looking for hymn set to 'Ode to Joy'
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ring, O Ring, Ye Chimes of Heaven
I just noticed that hymn #158 in Sambika, the standard Japanese Protestant hymnal, is a translation of '"Ring, O Ring, Ye Chimes of Glory", by John Carroll Davison, 1884'. I have never heard of this one; The Cyber Hymnal doesn't have it (nor a page on Mr. Davison). This is the only hymn in Sambika set to this tune. Anybody know anything about it? I'm particularly interested in finding it because I just discovered this was one of the hymns sung at my parents' memorial service in Tokyo in 1968, the order of service from which I am preparing to post in La Lilandejo (two pages may be seen here). Any assistance will be much appreciated. I would like to put both the English and the Japanese in my online hymnal.

Liland