Good Thursday
'Tis Midnight and On Olive's Brow
- Words:
- William Bingham Tappan, 1822.
- Music:
- 'St. Cross' John Bacchus Dykes, 1861.
- Setting:
- "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869.
- Metre:
- 8 8 8 8
- 1'Tis midnight, and on Olive's browThe star is dimmed that lately shone;'Tis midnight, in the garden nowThe suff'ring Savior prays alone.
- 2'Tis midnight, and from all removedImmanuel wrestles, lone, with fears;E'en the disciple whom He lovedHeeds not his Master's grief and tears.
- 3'Tis midnight, from the heav'nly plainsAre borne the songs that angels know;Unheard by mortals are the strainsThat sweetly soothe the Savior's woe.
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- Written in 1822, the words are in 743 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, St. Cross, is in 163 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.