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Text: | For All the Saints Who from Their Labors Rest |
Author: | William Walsham How |
Tune: | SARUM |
Composer: | Joseph Barnby |
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 strife 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 comes their rest;
Sweet is the calm of Paradise the blest.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
7 But lo! there breaks a yet more glorious day:
The saints triumphant rise in bright array;
The King of Glory passes on His way.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
8 From earth’s wide bounds, from ocean’s farthest coast,
Through gates of pearl streams in the countless host,
Singing to Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | For all the saints who from their labors rest |
Title: | For All the Saints Who from Their Labors Rest |
Author: | William Walsham How (1864, (Text of 1875)) |
Meter: | 10 10 10, 4 4. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1937 |
Topic: | Last Things: Heaven; All Saint' Day; Christian Soldiers(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SARUM |
Composer: | Joseph Barnby (1869) |
Meter: | 10 10 10, 4 4. |
Key: | E♭ Major |