Text: | A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing |
Author: | Venerable Bede, 673-735 |
Translator: | Benjamin Webb, 1819-1885 |
Tune: | LASTT UNS ERFREUEN |
Harmonizer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 |
1 A hymn of glory let us sing!
New songs throughout the world shall ring:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Christ, by a road before untrod,
Ascends unto the throne of God.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
2 The holy apostolic band
Upon the Mount of Olives stand.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
And with his faithful foll'wers see
Their Lord ascend in majesty.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
3 To whom shining angels cry,
"Why stand and gaze upon the sky?"
Alleluia! Alleluia!
"This is the Savior," Thus they say.
"This is his glorious triumph day."
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
4 "You see him now, ascending high
Up to the portals of the sky."
Alleluia! Alleluia!
"Hereafter Jesus you shall see
Returning in great majesty."
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
5 O Lord, our homeward pathway bend,
That our unwearied hearts ascend,
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Where, seated on your Father's throne,
You reign as King of kings alone.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | A hymn of glory let us sing! |
Title: | A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing |
Latin Title: | Hymnum canamus gloria |
Author: | Venerable Bede, 673-735 |
Translator: | Benjamin Webb, 1819-1885 |
Meter: | LM with alleluias |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2011 |
Topic: | Ascension of the Lord |
Source: | Tr.: The Hymnal Noted, 1854, alt. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | LASTT UNS ERFREUEN |
Harmonizer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 |
Meter: | LM with alleluias |
Key: | D Major |
Source: | Geistliche Kirchengasänge, Cologne, 1623 |
Copyright: | Harm © Oxford University Press |