Ye Angels Who Stand Round the Throne

DESCRIPTION: "Ye angels, who stand round the throne, And view my Immanuel's face, In rapturous songs make him known; Oh, tune your soft harps to his praise." The singer is tired of waiting on earth, "fettered and chained here in clay," and wants to go to God
AUTHOR: Author: Maria DeFleury (source: hymnary.org)
EARLIEST DATE: 1826 (Village Hymns for Social Music); DeFleury died at least 26 years before this
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
MidwestFolklore, Mary O. Eddy, "Twenty Folk Hymns," Volume 3, Number 1 (Spring 1953), p. 44, "De Fleury 8's D" (1 excerpt, 1 tune)
NOTES [55 words]: Eddy calls her version "De Fleury," presumably after the author of the text, but the tune Eddy uses for this lyric is not the one I found in a shape note hymnal with that title. In any case, hymnary,org shows multiple tunes for this text, with the most popular one, "Contrast," being found in barely more than half the instances. - RBW
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