From East to West (Trinity College)

Words: Cae­li­us Se­du­li­us, 5th Cen­tu­ry (A so­lis or­tus car­di­ne);
trans­lat­ed from La­tin to Eng­lish by John El­ler­ton in Church Hymns, 1871.

Ellerton grad­u­at­ed from Trin­i­ty Coll­ege and en­tered the min­is­try in 1850. He served as Vi­car at St. Ni­cho­las’, Bright­on, and Crewe Green, Che­shire.

He was a rec­og­nized au­thor­i­ty on hymns, con­trib­ut­ed to Hymns An­cient and Mo­dern, and wrote or trans­lat­ed over 80 hymns.

Music: Trin­i­ty Col­lege, John B. Dykes (1823-1876)

At age 12, Dykes be­came as­sist­ant or­gan­ist at St. John’s Church in Hull.
He stu­died at Wake­field and St. Cath­er­ine’s Hall in Cam­bridge, where he was a Dikes Scholar, Pre­si­dent of the Cam­bridge Uni­vers­i­ty Mu­sic­al So­ci­e­ty, and earned a BA in Clas­sics.
In 1848, he be­came cur­ate at Malton, York­shire. For a short time, he was canon of Dur­ham Ca­thed­ral, then pre­cent­or (1849-1862).
In 1862 he be­came Vi­car of St. Os­wald’s, Dur­ham (he named a son John St. Os­wald Dykes, and one of his tunes St. Oswald).