Sunday, February 03, 2019
Mindless Outpourings
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928),
"Afternoon Service at Mellstock," Collected Poems (London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1919), p. 403:
In J.B. James, Selected Portions from the New Version of the Psalms, Arranged for Every Sunday of the Year (Islesworth: M. Adams, 1838), three Tate-and-Brady psalms are marked to be sung to the tune "Cambridge New," viz. 98 ("Sing to the Lord a new-made song," for the Third Sunday of Advent), 105 ("Seek ye the Lord, his saving strength," for Epiphany), and 118 ("O praise the Lord, for he is good," for Easter).
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(Circa 1850)"Tate-and-Brady psalm," i.e. from Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, New Version of the Psalms (1696). Here is John Randall's tune "Cambridge New," from John S. Stone, A Collection of Twenty Four Psalm Tunes, &c. For a Country Congregation, Arranged for the Harmonium (London: W. Blagrove & Co, n.d.), p. 5:
On afternoons of drowsy calm
We stood in the panelled pew,
Singing one-voiced a Tate-and-Brady psalm
To the tune of "Cambridge New."
We watched the elms, we watched the rooks,
The clouds upon the breeze,
Between the whiles of glancing at our books,
And swaying like the trees.
So mindless were those outpourings!—
Though I am not aware
That I have gained by subtle thought on things
Since we stood psalming there.
In J.B. James, Selected Portions from the New Version of the Psalms, Arranged for Every Sunday of the Year (Islesworth: M. Adams, 1838), three Tate-and-Brady psalms are marked to be sung to the tune "Cambridge New," viz. 98 ("Sing to the Lord a new-made song," for the Third Sunday of Advent), 105 ("Seek ye the Lord, his saving strength," for Epiphany), and 118 ("O praise the Lord, for he is good," for Easter).
