Text: | The Royal Banners Forward Go |
Author (sts. 1-4): | Venantius Honorius Fortunatus, 530-609 |
Tune: | HERR JESU CHRIST, WAHR MENSCH UND GOTT |
Composer (attributed to): | Johann Eccard, 1553-1611 |
1 The royal banners forward go;
The cross shows forth redemption's flow
Where he, by whom our flesh was made,
Our ransom in his flesh has paid:
2 Where deep for us the spear was dyed,
Life's torrent rushing from his side,
To wash us in the precious flood
Where flowed the water and the blood.
3 Fulfilled is all that David told
In sure prophetic song of old,
That God the nations' king should be
And reign in triumph from the tree,
4 On whose hard arms, so widely flung,
The weight of this world's ransom hung,
The price of humankind to pay
And spoil the spoiler of his prey.
5 To you, eternal Three in One,
Let homage meet by all be done,
By all you ransomed and restore;
Oh, guide and gladden evermore.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The royal banners forward go |
Title: | The Royal Banners Forward Go |
Author (sts. 1-4): | Venantius Honorius Fortunatus, 530-609 |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1982 |
Topic: | Passion Week |
Source: | Source unknown, st. 5; Tr. composite |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | HERR JESU CHRIST, WAHR MENSCH UND GOTT |
Composer (attributed to): | Johann Eccard, 1553-1611 |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | d minor |
Copyright: | Arrangement: © 1969 Concordia Publishing House. |