A quiet setting of 'Come Down, O Love Divine” for organ is one of “Three Hymns of Praise, Set 5. An ostinato accompaniment repeats throughout the handbell arrangement “Come, Creator Spirit,” which combines DOWN AMPNEY with the plainchant tune VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS to create a meditative mood. “Come Down, O Love Divine” is also suitable for Pentecost or another service focusing on the Holy Spirit or the Trinity. “Five Hymn Accompaniments for Brass Quartet and Organ, Set 2” contains a setting of DOWN AMPNEY. “Come Down, O Love Divine” is a choral setting of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s harmonization, with an a capella stanza. This hymn is useful as a song of illumination, as a choral anthem or congregational hymn.

Try a brisk tempo, especially for congregational singing, to avoid losing momentum on the longer notes. DOWN AMPNEY works well when sung in harmony. It was named after his birthplace, and has been praised as one of the most beautiful hymn tunes ever written. Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote the tune DOWN AMPNEY for this text in the English Hymnal in 1906. Though the third Person of the Trinity is not specifically named until the very last line of the hymn, it is clear through the terms “O Love divine” and “O Comforter” that He is the one to whom this prayer is addressed. This hymn is addressed to the Holy Spirit. Littledale translated four of the original eight stanzas, but most hymnals omit his third (beginning “Let holy charity”) for a consistent three-stanza text. Littledale in The People's Hymnal in 1867. One of these, “Discendi, amor santo,” is the basis for this English translation by Richard F. A collection of his poems was published in 1851 at Lucca. In case of altitude sickness, what are the facilities available Would the sick person get preference on the next cable car down and are there doctors there. Bianco da Siena was an Italian monk who wrote poems called laudi spirituali in the fourteenth century.

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