Text: | The Royal Banners Forward Go |
Author: | Venantius Honorius Fortunatus, c. 530-609 |
Translator (st. 1-4): | John Mason Neale, 1818-66 |
Tune: | VEXILLA REGIS NOVA |
Composer: | Paul D. Weber, b. 1949 |
1 The royal banners forward go;
The cross shows forth redemption's flow,
Where He, by whom our flesh was made,
Our ransom in His flesh has paid:
2 Where deep for us the spear was dyed,
Life's torrent rushing from His side,
To wash us in the precious flood
Where flowed the water and the blood.
3 Fulfilled is all that David told
In sure prophetic song of old.
That God the nations' king should be
And reign in triumph from the tree.
4 On whose hard arms, so widely flung,
The weight of this world's ransom hung,
The price of humankind to pay
And spoil the spoiler of his prey.
5 O Tree of beauty, tree most fair,
Ordained those holy limbs to bear:
Gone is thy shame, each crimsoned bough
Proclaims the King of Glory now.
6 To Thee, eternal Three in One,
Let homage meet by all be done;
As by the cross Thou dost restore,
So guide and keep us evermore.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The royal banners forward go |
Title: | The Royal Banners Forward Go |
Author: | Venantius Honorius Fortunatus, c. 530-609 |
Translator (st. 1-4): | John Mason Neale, 1818-66 (alt.) |
Meter: | L M |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2006 |
Scripture: | ; ; |
Topic: | Holy Cross Day |
Source: | The Hymnal 1982, Tr. sts. 5-6 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | VEXILLA REGIS NOVA |
Composer: | Paul D. Weber, b. 1949 |
Meter: | L M |
Incipit: | 34665 43432 14453 |
Key: | e minor |
Copyright: | © 2003 Paul D. Weber |