167 | The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892#168 | 169 |
Text: | King of saints, to Whom the number |
Author: | Rev. J. Ellerton |
Tune: | [King of saints, to Whom the number] |
Composer: | Sir Joseph Barnby |
1 King of saints, to Whom the number
Of Thy starry host is known,
Many a name, by man forgotten,
Lives for ever round Thy throne:
Lights, which earth-born mists have darkened,
There are shining full and clear,
Princes in the court of heaven,
Nameless, unremembered here.
2 In the roll of Thine apostles
One there stands, Bartholomew,
He for whom to-day we offer,
Year by year, our praises due:
How he toiled for Thee and suffered
None on earth can now record;
All his saintly life is hidden
In the knowledge of his Lord;
3 None can tell us: all is written
In the Lamb's great book of life,
All the faith, and prayer, and patience
All the toiling, and the strife:
There are told Thy hidden treasures:
Number us, O Lord, with them,
When Thou makest up the jewels
Of Thy living diadem.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | King of saints, to Whom the number |
Title: | King of saints, to Whom the number |
Author: | Rev. J. Ellerton (1871) |
Meter: | 8.7.D. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1892 |
Topic: | Other Feasts and Fasts: St. Bartholomew; Associations or Guilds |
Notes: | Tune name in index: ST. HILDA |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [King of saints, to Whom the number] |
Composer: | Sir Joseph Barnby |
Meter: | 8.7.D. |
Key: | E Major |