"After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven, and He sat at the right hand of God." Mark 16:19
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Words: Charles Wesley, Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.
Music: "Llanfair," Robert Williams, 1817; harmony by John Roberts, 1837
This tune is apparently named after Williams' home town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllandtysiliogogogoch. In English, the name means "church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel near the rapid whirlpool of the Church of St. Tysillio by the red cave." |