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6670 | The Cyber Hymnal#6671 | 6672 |
Text: | Those Eternal Bowers |
Author (attributed to, st. 1 & 3): | John of Damascus |
Translator (from Greek): | John M. Neale |
Tune: | MORLEY |
Composer: | Thomas Morley |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. Those eternal bowers, man hath never trod,
Those unfading flowers round the throne of God:
Who may hope to gain them after weary fight?
Who at length attain them, clad in robes of white?
2. He who wakes from slumber at the Spirit’s voice,
Daring here to number things unseen his choice:
He whose one oblation is a life of love,
Knit in God’s salvation to the blest above.
3. Shame upon you, legions of the heav’nly King,
Citizens of regions past imagining!
What! with pipe and tabor dream away the light,
When He bids you labor, when He tells you, Fight?
4. Jesus, Lord of glory, as we breast the tide,
Whisper Thou the story of the other side;
Where the saints are casting crowns before Thy feet,
Safe for everlasting, in Thyself complete.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Those eternal bowers, man hath never trod |
Title: | Those Eternal Bowers |
Greek Title: | Τὰς εδρὰς τὰς αιωνίας |
Author (attributed to, st. 1 & 3): | John of Damascus (8th Century) |
Translator (from Greek): | John M. Neale |
Meter: | 11.11.11.11 |
Language: | English |
Source: | Translation in Hymns of the Eastern Church, 1862, alt. |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | MORLEY |
Composer: | Thomas Morley (1867) |
Meter: | 11.11.11.11 |
Incipit: | 35321 61713 55565 |
Key: | G Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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