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Text:O heavenly Word of God on high
Tune:VERBUM SUPERNUM

2. O heavenly Word of God on high

Text Information
First Line: O heavenly Word of God on high
Latin Title: Verbum supernum prodiens
Language: English
Publication Date: 1986
Topic: The Christian Year: Advent; Office Hymn
Source: Latin; Tr.: Editors, based upon the Latin, c. 10th century
Copyright: © The Canterbury Press Norwich
Notes: Alternative tune ST GREGORY I (ii)
Tune Information
Name: VERBUM SUPERNUM
Key: G Major
Source: Mode viii melody as in the Mechlin Antiphonarium Romanum, 1838
Copyright: Arr. by permission of Oxford University Press (from "English Hymnal," 1933)



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