Text: | O happy band of pilgrims |
Author: | From the Greek of St. Joseph the Hymnographer (c. 840) |
Translator: | Dr. J. M. Neale, 1818-1866 |
Tune: | KNECHT |
Composer: | J. H. Knecht, 1752-1817 |
1 O happy band of pilgrims,
If onward ye will tread,
With Jesus as your Leader,
To Jesus as your Head!
2 O happy, if he labour
As Jesus did for men;
O happy, if ye hunger
As Jesus hungered then!
3 The faith by which ye see Him,
The hope in which ye yearn,
The love that through all troubles
To Him alone will turn.
4 The trials that beset you,
The sorrows ye endure,
The manifold temptations
That death alone can cure,
5 What are they but His jewels,
Of right celestial worth?
What are they but the ladder
Set up to heaven on earth?
6 O happy band of pilgrims,
Look upward to the skies,
Where such a light affliction
Shall win you such a prize.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O happy band of pilgrims |
Author: | From the Greek of St. Joseph the Hymnographer (c. 840) |
Translator: | Dr. J. M. Neale, 1818-1866 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1917 |
Topic: | The Church and the Kingdom of God: Social Service; Pilgrims |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | KNECHT |
Composer: | J. H. Knecht, 1752-1817 |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6 |
Key: | F Major or modal |