Text: | O Love, How Deep |
Author: | Thomas à Kempis, 15th cent. |
Translator: | Benjamin Webb |
Tune: | DEO GRACIAS |
1 O love, how deep, how broad, how high,
how passing thought and fantasy,
that God, the Son of God, should take
our mortal form for mortals’ sake!
2 He sent no angel to our race,
of higher or of lower place,
but wore the robe of human frame,
and He Himself to this world came.
3 For us baptized, for us He bore
His holy fast, and hungered sore;
for us temptations sharp He knew,
for us the tempter overthrew.
4 For us to wicked men betrayed,
scourged, mocked, in crown of thorns arrayed,
He bore the shameful cross and death
for us at length gave up His breath.
5 For us He rose from death again,
for us He went on high to reign,
for us He sent His Spirit here
to guide, to strengthen, and to cheer.
6 All glory to our Lord and God
for love so deep, so high, so broad —
the Trinity whom we adore
forever and forevermore.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O love, how deep, how broad, how high |
Title: | O Love, How Deep |
Author: | Thomas à Kempis, 15th cent. |
Translator: | Benjamin Webb (1854, alt.) |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2017 |
Topic: | Jesus Christ: Suffering and Death |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | DEO GRACIAS |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | c minor |
Source: | English melody; Harm. from Hymns Ancient and Modern, Revised, 1950 |