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Text: | For All the Saints |
Author: | W. W. How, 1823-97 |
Tune: | SINE NOMINE |
Composer: | R. Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 |
1 For all the saints who from their labors rest,
Who Thee by faith before the world confessed,
Thy name, O Jesus, be forever blest.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
2 Thou wast their Rock, their Fortress, and their Might,
Thou, Lord, their Captain in the well-fought fight;
Thou in the darkness drear; their one true Light.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
3 O may Thy soldiers, faithful, true, and bold,
Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old
And win with them the victor's crown of gold.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
4 O blest communion, fellowship divine,
We feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
Yet all are one in Thee, for all are Thine.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
5 And when the fight is fierce, the warfare long,
Steals on the ear the distant triumph song,
And hearts are brave again, and arms are strong.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
6 The golden evening brightens in the west;
Soon, soon, to faithful warriors cometh rest.
Sweet is the calm of Paradise the blest.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | For all the saints who from their labors rest |
Title: | For All the Saints |
Author: | W. W. How, 1823-97 (alt.) |
Meter: | 10 10 10 with Alleluias |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1996 |
Topic: | Saints and Martyrs |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SINE NOMINE |
Composer: | R. Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 |
Meter: | 10 10 10 with Alleluias |
Key: | F Major |