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Text: | Praise to the Holiest in the height |
Author: | John Henry Newman, 1801-1890 |
Tune: | GERONTIUS |
Composer: | John Bacchus Dykes, 1823-1875 |
1 Praise to the Holiest in the height,
and in the depth be praise;
in all His words most wonderful,
most sure in all His ways!
2 O loving wisdom of our God!
When all was sin and shame,
a second Adam to the fight
and to the rescue came.
3 O wisest love! that flesh and blood,
which did in Adam fail,
should strive afresh against the foe,
should strive and should prevail.
4 O generous love! that He, who smote
as Man to smite our foe,
the double agony for us
as man should undergo;
5 And in the garden secretly,
and on the cross on high,
should teach His followers, and inspire
to suffer and to die.
6 Praise to the Holiest in the height,
and in the depth be praise;
in all His words most wonderful,
most sure in all his ways!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Praise to the Holiest in the height |
Author: | John Henry Newman, 1801-1890 |
Meter: | CM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2004 |
Source: | Adapt.: Compilers of Hymns for Today's Church, 1982 |
Notes: | Alternative tune: RICHMOND, #537 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | GERONTIUS |
Composer: | John Bacchus Dykes, 1823-1875 |
Meter: | CM |
Key: | A Major |