Unless stated otherwise, my source for hymn texts and tunes is The Lutheran Service Book.

Friday, January 1, 2021

"All My Heart Again Rejoices"

At the end of 2019 and into 2020, KFUO was tweeting stanzas from "All My Heart Again Rejoices."  I noticed a few merisms in the text:  "Far and near" in the first verse ("All my heart again rejoices / As I hear / Far and near / Sweetest angel voices") and both "One and all" and "Great and small" in the sixth ("Come, then, banish all your sadness! / One and all, / Great and small, / Come with songs of gladness").