The Cyber Hymnal ‎#308

308. Awake, Awake the Sacred Song

1. Awake, awake the sacred song,
To our incarnate Lord;
Let every heart and every tongue
Adore th’Eternal Word.

2. That awful Word, that sovereign Power,
By whom the worlds were made,
O happy morn, illustrious hour,
Was once in flesh arrayed.

3. Then shone almighty power and love,
In all their glorious forms,
When Jesus left His throne above,
To dwell with sinful worms.

4. To dwell with misery below,
The Savior left the skies,
And sunk to wretchedness and woe,
That worthless man might rise.

Text Information

• First Line: Awake, awake the sacred song
• Title: Awake, Awake the Sacred Song
• Author: Anne Steele (1760)
• Meter: CM
• Language: English
• Source: Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, 1760, Volume I, page 85
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: DIVINITY
• Composer: Joseph Funk
• Meter: CM
• Incipit: 32115 12321 35134
• Key: G Major
• Source: A Compilation of Genuine Church Music, second edition, 1835
• Copyright: Public Domain