hymns

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Hymns from the Hillsong Church soothed the gym for Garcia’s warm-ups.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2023

After a life on the seas, he was ordained in 1764 and appointed a curate in Olney, where he collaborated with poet William Cowper to publish The Olney Hymns in 1779.

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2023

Hymns would be sung, in German, for hours, and relatives would stay with the dead all through the night, family and community members said.

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2021

In an article on "Hymns in a Man's Life," Lawrence says the "battle-cry of a stout soul" he hears and admires in English Nonconformist hymns is "far, far from any militarism or gun-fighting."

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2021

This story is told only in a very early poem, one of the earliest of the Homeric Hymns, dating from the eighth or the beginning of the seventh century.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton