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10692 | The Cyber Hymnal#10693 | 10694 |
Text: | Bend To Our Hymns, Redeemer |
Author: | John of Damascus, 685-649 |
Translator: | William C. Dix |
Tune: | EWING |
Composer: | Alexander Ewing |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 Bend to our hymns, Redeemer,
The foe’s high brow bring low;
Thou from on high beholdest
Each sin which works our woe;
Yet us, Thine own, Most Holy,
Who steadfastly believe,
Thy minstrels, truly faithful,
Thyself in love receive.
2 The band of herdsmen chosen
The strange new sight to see,
Was troubled at beholding
The wondrous mystery:
The offspring of a maiden,
Incarnate without seed,
This, this the passing marvel
No human mind can read.
3 O sight all unaccustomed,
Their monarch, Christ the Lord,
They see by tuneful cohorts
Of seraphim adored;
In tender loving-kindness
He comes, who rules the sky,
And born of maid unwedded,
Fulfills His promise high.
4 Erewhile without a body,
The Essence flesh was made;
The Word took matter to Him
From Mary, stainless maid:
That to Himself, us sinners,
The guilty sons of men,
Creation’s fallen chieftains,
He might draw back again.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Bend to our hymns, Redeemer |
Title: | Bend To Our Hymns, Redeemer |
Greek Title: | Νεῦσον πρὸς ὕμνους, οἰχετῶν εὐεϱγέτα |
Author: | John of Damascus, 685-649 |
Translator: | William C. Dix |
Meter: | 76.76 D |
Language: | English |
Source: | Tr.: Lyra Messianica by Orby Shipley (London: Longman, Green, Longman, roberts & Green, 1864) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | EWING |
Composer: | Alexander Ewing (1853) |
Meter: | 76.76 D |
Key: | D Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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