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470 | The Hymnal#471 | 472 |
Text: | O where are kings and empires now |
Author: | Arthur Cleveland Coxe |
Tune: | ST. ANNE |
Composer: | William Croft |
O where are kings and empires now
Of old, that went and came?
But, Lord, thy Church is praying yet,
A thousand years the same.
We mark her goodly battlements,
And her foundations strong;
We hear within the solemn voice
Of her unending song.
For not like kingdoms of the world
Thy holy Church, O God,
Though earthquake shocks are threatening her,
And tempests are abroad;
Unshaken as eternal hills,
Immovable she stands,
A mountain that shall fill the earth,
A house not made by hands.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O where are kings and empires now |
Author: | Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1839, cento) |
Meter: | C.M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1916 |
Topic: | Sundays after Epiphany; The Church Militant |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. ANNE |
Composer: | William Croft (1708) |
Meter: | C.M. |
Incipit: | 53651 17151 5645 |
Key: | C Major |