Text: | Alleluia, song of sweetness |
Translator: | John Mason Neale, 1818 - 66 |
Tune: | TANTUM ERGO (DULCE CARMEN) |
1 Alleluia, song of sweetness,
Voice of joy that cannot die;
Alleluia is the anthem
Ever dear to choirs on high;
In the house of God abiding
Thus they sing eternally.
2 Alleluia, thou resoundest,
True Jerusalem and free;
Alleluia, joyful mother,
All thy children sing with thee;
But by Babylon's sad waters
Mourning exiles now are we. Amen.
3 Alleluia cannot always
Be our song while here below;
Alleluia our transgressions
Make us for a while forego;
For the solemn time is coming
When our tears for sin must flow.
4 Therefore in our hymns we pray thee
Grant us, blessèd Trinity,
At the last to keep thine Easter
In our home beyond the sky,
There to thee forever singing
Alleluia joyfully.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Alleluia, song of sweetness |
Translator: | John Mason Neale, 1818 - 66 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1958 |
Topic: | The Church Year: Septuagesima to Lent |
Source: | Medieval Latin Hymn |
Notes: | This hymn may also be sung to REGENT SQUARE (No. 31). |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | TANTUM ERGO (DULCE CARMEN) |
Meter: | 8 7, 8 7, 8 7. |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | Essay on The Church Plain Chant, 1782 |