119 | Trinity Hymnal#120 | 121 |
Text: | O Christ, our hope, our heart's desire |
Translator: | John Chandler |
Tune: | BRADFORD |
Composer: | George Frederick Handel |
1 O Christ, our hope, our heart's desire,
Redemption's only spring!
Creator of the world art thou,
Its Saviour and its King.
2 How vast the mercy and the love
Which laid our sins on thee,
And led thee to a cruel death,
To set thy people free.
3 But now the bands of death are burst,
The ransom has been paid;
And thou art on thy Father's throne,
In glorious robes arrayed.
4 O Christ, be thou our lasting joy,
Our ever great reward!
Our only glory may it be
To glory in the Lord.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O Christ, our hope, our heart's desire |
Translator: | John Chandler (1837) |
Meter: | C. M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1961 |
Topic: | Christ, The Lord Jesus; Christ: Conqueror; Christ: Creator(4 more...) |
Source: | Latin hymn, 7th or 8th century |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | BRADFORD |
Composer: | George Frederick Handel (arr.) |
Meter: | C. M. |
Key: | D Major |