Text: | O Happy Band of Pilgrims |
From: | Joseph the Hymnographer (c. 800-883) |
Translator: | John M. Neale (1818-1866) |
Tune: | VULPIUS |
Arr. from: | Melchior Vulpius (1560-1616) |
1 O happy band of pilgrims,
If onward ye will tread
With Jesus as your fellow,
To Jesus as your Head!
2 O happy if ye labor
As Jesus did for men;
O happy if ye hunger
As Jesus hungered then!
3 The trials that beset you,
The sorrows ye endure,
The manifold temptations
That death alone can cure,
4 What are they but His jewels
Of right celestial worth?
What are they but the ladder
Set up to heaven on earth?
5 O happy band of pilgrims,
Look upward to the skies,
Where such a light affliction
Shall win you such a prize!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O happy band of pilgrims, If onward ye will tread |
Title: | O Happy Band of Pilgrims |
From: | Joseph the Hymnographer (c. 800-883) (c. 840) |
Translator: | John M. Neale (1818-1866) (1862) |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6. |
Publication Date: | 1985 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Christan Life: Pilgrimage |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | VULPIUS |
Arr. from: | Melchior Vulpius (1560-1616) |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6. |
Incipit: | 13234 53654 32356 |
Key: | E♭ Major |