Text: | The Head That Once Was Crowned |
Author: | Thomas Kelly |
Tune: | MANOAH |
Composer: | Franz J Haydon |
1 The royal banner is unfurled,
The cross is reared on high,
On which the Saviour of the world
Is stretched in agony.
2 See! through His holy hands and feet
The cruel nails they drive:
Our ransom thus is made complete,
Our souls are saved alive.
3 And see! the spear that pierced His side,
And shed that sacred flood,
That holy reconciling tide,
The water and the blood.
4 Hail, holy cross! from thee we learn
The only way to heaven:
And O, to Thee may sinners turn,
And look, and be forgiven!
5 Jehovah, we Thy name adore
In Thee we will rejoice,
And sing, till time shall be no more
The triumphs of the cross.
AMEN.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The royal banner is unfurled |
Title: | The Head That Once Was Crowned |
Author: | Thomas Kelly |
Meter: | C M |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1999 |
Topic: | Christ's Passion |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | MANOAH |
Composer: | Franz J Haydon |
Meter: | C M |
Key: | A♭ Major |