Thomas Ken – Thomas & James Cubbin Memorial Tablet – Old Kirk Braddan (Church of St. Brendan) - Braddan, Isle of Man - Etched in Stone on Waymarking.com

A quote from the hymn “All Praise to Thee, My God, This Night” can be found at the foot of the Epitaph on the Memorial Tablet for Thomas and James Cubbin inside Old Kirk Braddan (Church of St. Brendan) at Braddan Bridge in Braddan.

The full text of Memorial Tablet is shown below:
"IN MEMORY OF
THOMAS,
AGED 11 YEARS AND 3 MONTHS, AND.
JAMES
1 YEAR AND 10 MONTHS, SONS OF THOMAS, AND
ARMS, IN THE SURF ON THE COAST OF MADAGASCAR, ON
THE 26TH MARCH 1868, AFTER ENDURING VERY GREAT
PRIVATION AND SUFFERINGS 11 DAYS IN A SMALL OPEN
BOAT, THROUGH THE FOUNDERING OF THE SHIP SERICA.
AFTER AN AWFUL HURRICAN IN THE INDIAN SEA.
“TEACH ME TO LIVE THAT I MAY DREAD
THE GRAVE AS LITTLE AS MY BED.”"

The quotation at the end of the epitaph is taken from the third verse of the hymn “All Praise to Thee, My God , This Night”
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Thw lyrics of the hymn are the work of Thomas Ken (1637 - 11) while the music was compposed by Thomas Tallis.

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The full hymn is shown below:
“1. All praise to thee, my God, this night,
for all the blessings of the light!
Keep me, O keep me, King of kings,
beneath thine own almighty wings.


2. Forgive me, Lord, for thy dear Son,
the ill that I this day have done,
that with the world, myself, and thee,
I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.


3. Teach me to live, that I may dread
the grave as little as my bed.
Teach me to die, that so I may
rise glorious at the judgment day.


4. O may my soul on thee repose,
and with sweet sleep mine eyelids close,
sleep that may me more vigorous make
to serve my God when I awake.


5. Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
praise him, all creatures here below;
praise him above, ye heavenly host;
praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.”


The line was later use by Thomas Hardy in the dream that closes Chapter 1 of ‘Jude the Obscure’
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“And lastly a gentle-voiced prelate spoke, during whose meek, familiar
rhyme, endeared to him from earliest childhood, Jude fell asleep:

Teach me to live, that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed.
Teach me to die ...”

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Address: Old Kirk Braddan, Braddan Bridge, Braddan, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM4 4LB. Website: [Web Link]

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