Our Hymn of the Week, for the Feast of the Transfiguration, is the grand “O Wondrous Type,” translated from the Latin into English by the great John Mason Neale. WAREHAM is a fine melody for it, but my favorite is DEO GRACIAS, sometimes listed in hymnals as “The Agincourt Song,” because that’s what the melody was composed for, a fight carol – celebrati…
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