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Text:Let Our Gladness Have No End
Translator (st. 2):Vincent Pisek, 1859-1930
Tune:NARODIL SE KRISTUS PÁN
Arranger:Richard W. Hillert, b. 1923

381. Let Our Gladness Have No End

1 Let our gladness have no end, alleluia!
For to earth did Christ descend, alleluia!

Refrain:
On this day God gave us
Christ, His Son, to save us;
Christ, His Son to save us.

2 Prophesied in days of old, alleluia!
God has sent Him as foretold, alleluia! [Refrain]

3 See, the loveliest blooming rose, alleluia!
From the branch of Jesse grows, alleluia! [Refrain]

4 Into flesh is made the Word, alleluia!
He, our refuge and our Lord, alleluia! [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: Let our gladness have no end
Title: Let Our Gladness Have No End
Translator (st. 2): Vincent Pisek, 1859-1930
Refrain First Line: On this day God gave us
Meter: 74 74 and refrain
Language: English
Publication Date: 2006
Scripture: ; ; ;
Source: Bohemian, 15th cent.; Unknown tr. (sts. 1, 3-4)
Tune Information
Name: NARODIL SE KRISTUS PÁN
Arranger: Richard W. Hillert, b. 1923
Meter: 74 74 and refrain
Incipit: 12345 55456 55544
Key: F Major
Source: Bohemian, 15th cent.
Copyright: Setting © 1978, Lutheran Book of Worship



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