Text: | For all the Saints who from their labours rest |
Author: | W. Walsham How, 1823-97 |
Tune: | SINE NOMINE |
Composer: | R. Vaughan Wiliams, 1872-1958 |
1 For all the Saints who from their labours rest,
Who thee by faith before the world confest.
Thy name, O Jesu, be for ever blest.
Alleluya! Alleluya!
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.
Alleluya! Alleluya!
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.
Alleluya! Alleluya!
4 O blest communion! fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
Yet all are one in thee, for all are thine.
Alleluya! Alleluya!
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.
Alleluya! Alleluya!
6 The golden evening brightens in the west;
Soon, soon to faithful warriors cometh rest:
Sweet is the calm of Paradise the blest.
Alleluya! Alleluya!
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.
Alleluya! Alleluya!
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.
Alleluya! Alleluya!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | For all the Saints who from their labours rest |
Author: | W. Walsham How, 1823-97 |
Meter: | 10 10 10 4 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1986 |
Topic: | All Saints; Procession; The Christian Year: Festivals and Other Holy Days: Proper |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SINE NOMINE |
Composer: | R. Vaughan Wiliams, 1872-1958 |
Meter: | 10 10 10 4 |
Key: | G Major |
Copyright: | By permission of Oxford Univeristy Press (from "English Praise") |