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Nor me!
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I had never heard of it either, but I guess I'm getting better at formulating Google searches.

Anyway, here's one that got mangled pretty well although I think it is still recognizable:

O Lord my heart, oh my perspective,
And for all that I can save you
Day or night, I felt better
Or before you light my sleep.


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quote:
Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
Nor me!

Can I come in as third.

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quote:
Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
quote:
Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
Nor me!

Can I come in as third.

Am I literally the ONLY person who's ever heard "I Will Early Seek the Savior?" I knew it wasn't a Greatest Hit or anything, but I didn't think it was that obscure.

About Amanda's, I have no clue.

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Miss Amanda, is it "Be Thou My Vision?"

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Yes, you've got it, Mamacita.

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Huzzah! That was my second-favorite hymn.

New entry:
How the basic, God Play Sage, the company has put its faith in the good words.
He says you can call it manually, but protection for Jesus have fled?


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How Firm a Foundation?

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Correct.

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English - Romanian - Czech - Chinese - Swedish - Korean - English

Great God, to participate in the songs of Zion
Sources in the joy of existence,
During the day to follow up on the site
In addition to the 1001 Happiness


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I have no idea, but the last half sounds like it's from a fortune cookie.

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O for a thousand tongues?

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Nope. Concentrate on the first line to solve it.

The last line is hilarious -- right up to the Korean it had 1000. The Korean changed it to 1001.

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I think it may be an Isaac Watts hymn I had never heard of until 2 minutes ago, when I did a Google search based on your hint:

Great God! Attend, while Zion sings
The joy that from Thy presence springs;
To spend one day with Thee on earth
Exceeds a thousand days of mirth.

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A thousand and one happinesses certainly do exceed a mere thousand mirths [Smile]

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L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.

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You got it, BT. Take it away!

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Try this - not hard, I think:

How sweet the sound of Jesus
Believe their ears!
Release pain, wound around,
And the issue.

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How about --
quote:
How sweet the Name of Jesus sounds
in a believer's ear!
It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
and drives away his fear.



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What took you so long?!!! Quite correct.
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Just lucky, I guess. [Razz] I think this one will go quickly as well:

In the winter, when all the birds to fly, God of heaven and earth, sending an angel choir, instead of God.

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I know this one - but I'm about to disappear for the weekend so I will let someone else answer!

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'Twas in the moon of wintertime when all the birds had fled
That mighty Gitchi Manitou sent angel choirs instead;
Before their light the stars grew dim and wandering hunters heard the hymn:
Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, in excelsis gloria.

(The Huron Carol -- very lovely!)

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Miss Amanda has it. (I used "God the Lord of heaven and earth" as in TEC's hymnal instead of Gitchi Manitou -- which, in retrospect, I should have used to see what the translator would do with it!)

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While we're onto semi-obscure Christmas carols: This one will be obvious to those who know it. I had to take a few liberties with the translation to make it less so.

When snow Bloom Bloom
When the winter night child was born,
Christmas came up,
King of love and beauty.
Angela sang, shepherds sang
Country fun dead;
And their stars happy birthday
Was their exultation.


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Is that "When blossoms flowered amid the snow" (official title I think is Jesu Bambino or something like that)?

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There ya go. I knew you'd know it! (Although I don't know for the life of me how "Country fun dead" translates "The grateful earth rejoiced."

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Wow! Must run to a meeting (why do churches always have Saturday a.m. meetings? oh, well, I called this one, so I'd better go) and will post one a bit later today.

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My school choir used to open our Christmas concert with this one every year, sung a capella from the back of the theatre.

Short breaks, ř sky a beautiful morning, and. Library of shepherds, angels fear that I heard the alarm is reduced

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I'm sure you surprised the dickens out of your audiences, unless the program also included the translation:

Break forth, O beauteous heavenly light,
and usher in the morning;
O shepherds, shrink not with affright,
but hear the angel's warning.
This child, now weak in infancy,
our confidence and joy shall be,
the power of Satan breaking,
our peace eternal making.

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[Big Grin] Yes, indeed.

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This one may be a little obscure:

Pure virgin, the prophets announced.
If Savior, and now we're here.
Death, hell and sin, our savior.
Adam, what about our sins?
Then we should be satisfied.
Tell us to give our day the sad side.
Jesus was born nine weeks.


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Not at all:

A virgin most pure, as the prophets do tell,
Hath brought forth a Baby, as it hath befell,
To be our Redeemer from death, hell and sin,
Which Adam’s transgression has wrappčd us in.
And therefore be merry, set sorrow aside;
Christ Jesus our Saviour was born on this tide.

And I even know the tune!

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Dear me, that was quick! Good show! It wasn't as obscure as I thought.

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This is far too obvious - but fun!

Adam ybounden,
Holy marriage;
Four thousand winter
Think that not too long.
And they were all on apples,
Apple, on,
Register as an official found
Book.

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quote:

Adam lay ybounden,
Bounden in a bond;
Four thousand winter
Thought he not too long.
And all was for an apple,
An apple that he took,
As clerkës finden written
In their book

Google translate does not cope well with archaic English. I tend to modernise the wording in such cases.

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Yes, but it was fun!
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Jengie, where are you? We can't hold our breath that long!
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Sorry got over involved in doing the Advent Wreath:

quote:

Midnight is clear
and well known songs
from the old gold angels
with harps points near the surface of contact "Peace on earth goodwill to the people of heaven
to all your friends put up the king!"
In celebration of the world
is listening chanadh Angels

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It came upon a midnight clear

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Yes it is. Over to you.

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Father, we recommend that you, the night is over,
Positive and accurate, we are all set before you;
Singing our paidir and meditation can provide:
Therefore, we worship you.


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How's about
quote:
Father, we praise thee, now the night is over,
active and watchful, stand we all before thee;
singing we offer prayer and meditation:
thus we adore thee.

(what the heck's a "paidir"?)

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quote:
Originally posted by Mamacita:
(what the heck's a "paidir"?)

Beats the dickens out of me as well as the Google Translator programmers -- but I'll bet it involves money.

You're right, of course -- over to you.

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Here we go:

Ignore the noise in the forest.
Desert Road in the preparation
of highway for our God.


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Another Research one

I would suggest it is either
quote:

There’s a voice in the wilderness crying,
A call from the ways untrod:
Prepare in the desert a highway,
A highway for our God!
The valleys shall be exalted,
The lofty hills brought low;
Make straight all the crooked places,
Where the Lord our God may go!

or less likely another hymn based on the passage which I cannot find the text to, so cannot check for likeness

There's a voice in the wilderness crying which I found reference to here

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I tried back-translating and came up with:

Hawapendi voice of the forest.
Desert road to prepare.
From the highway to our God.

Very mysterious - and no use!

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Mamacita

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Jengie Jon has it! Well done, pursuing the "Advent hymns" theme!

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Jengie jon

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When I research I look for a theme then have sort of sub-themes (more accurately a guess at what they might partially translate to) for most lines. If two of the sub-themes match the lines I go with the hymn. It really works only if I can get the big theme about right.

So here is the new one that sounds quite morbid:
quote:

This game a long time in the dark
Waiting to see a great light,
People who live in these days,
Who lived in the region died during the night.

English -> Dutch -> Italian -> Chinese -> Swahili -> Hindi -> Catalan -> Bulgarian -> English.

Jengie

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Still in Advent, I see:

The race that long in darkness pined
have seen a glorious light;
the people dwell in day, who dwelt
in death's surrounding night.

It's in "Rejoice & Sing".

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Yes it is, but its use is wider than that, as it comes from Scottish Paraphrases 1781 by John Morison which also means I think it must have been the third of the Christmas Carols allowed in the Canadian hymnbook Sober Preacher's Kid mentioned.

Jengie

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