Text: | On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry |
Author: | Charles Coffin |
Translator: | John Chandler |
Tune: | PUER NOBIS NASCITUR |
1 On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry
Announces that the Lord is nigh;
Come, then, and listen, for he brings
Good news about the King of kings.
2 Then cleansed be ev'ry life from sin
And furnished for a guest within,
And let us all our hearts prepare
For Christ to come and enter there.
3 We hail you as our Savior, Lord,
Our refuge and our great reward.
Without your grace we waste away
Like flow'rs that wither and decay.
4 Stretch forth your hand, our health restore,
And lift us up to fall no more.
Oh, make your face on us to shine,
And fill the world with love divine.
5 All praise to you, eternal Son,
Whose advent has our freedom won,
Whom with the Father we adore
And Holy Spirit evermore.
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First Line: | On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry |
Title: | On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry |
Author: | Charles Coffin |
Translator: | John Chandler |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1993 |
Topic: | Advent |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | PUER NOBIS NASCITUR |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | D Major |
Source: | Latin melody, 15th century, adapt. |
Copyright: | Setting: © A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd. |