¡Cuán Admirable Amor!

Translator: Clair Weldon

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Author: Anonymous

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Text Information

First Line: ¡Cuán admirable amor, nos ofreces, Señor!
Title: ¡Cuán Admirable Amor!
Translator: Clair Weldon
Author: Anonymous
Meter: 12.9.12.12.9
Language: Spanish
Copyright: © 1989 Herald Publishing house

Tune

WONDROUS LOVE (Southern Harmony)

WONDROUS LOVE was first set to this text in William Walker's (PsH 44) second edition of Southern Harmony (1840). Publication of the hymn in B. F. White's The Sacred Harp (1844) further promoted the combination of text and tune. The meter of "What Wondrous Love" derives from an old English ballad abo…

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