Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

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Wake, Awake, for Night is Flying
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Wake, Awake, for Night is Flying

Philip Nicolai, 1599; translated by Catherine Winkworth

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The year is 1598, and the time is early morning. A middle-aged minister in the Westphalian town of Unna is sitting at his desk, praying, with a pen in his hand. He is a poet, a theologian, and a musical composer all in one, rare even for that time, unheard of in ours. The plague has been through Unna — actually, since 1348, the plague had settled down i…

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