Text: | Alleluia! Song of gladness |
Tune: | ALLELUIA, DULCE CARMEN |
Composer (ascribed to): | Michael Haydn (1737-1806) |
1 Alleluia! Song of gladness,
Voice of everlasting joy;
Alleluia! Sound the sweetest
Heard among the choirs on high,
Hymning in God's blissful mansion
Day and night incessantly.
2 Alleluia! Church victorious,
Thou may'st lift the joyful strain:
Alleluia! Songs of triumph
Well befit the ransomed train.
Faint and feeble are our praises
While in exile we remain.
3 Alleluia! Songs of gladness
Suit not always souls forlorn;
Alleluia! Sounds of sadness
'Midst our joyful strains are borne;
For in this dark world of sorrow
We with tears our sins must mourn.
4 Praises with our prayers uniting,
Hear us, blessèd Trinity;
Bring us to Thy blissful presence,
There the Paschal Lamb to see,
There to Thee our Alleluia
Singing everlastingly.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Alleluia! Song of gladness |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1917 |
Topic: | The Church Year: Septuagesima to Lent |
Source: | Latin Hymn of XI Century; Tr. Cooke and Denton's Hymnal, 1853 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ALLELUIA, DULCE CARMEN |
Composer (ascribed to): | Michael Haydn (1737-1806) |
Meter: | 8 7, 8 7, 8 7 |
Key: | A Major |