Text: | Why, impious Herod, shouldst thou fear |
Author: | Caelius Sedulius |
Translator: | Percy Dearmer, 1867-1936 |
Tune: | ST VENANTIUS |
Harmonizer: | M. F. |
1 Why, impious Herod, shouldst thou fear
Because the Christ is come so near?
He who doth heavenly kingdoms grant
Thine earthly realm can never want.
2 Lo, sages from the East are gone
To where the star hath newly shone:
Led on by light to Light they press,
And by their gifts their God confess.
3 The Lamb of God is manifest
Again in Jordan’s water blest,
And he who sin had never known
By washing hath our sins undone.
4 Yet he that ruleth everything
Can change the nature of the spring,
And gives at Cana this for sign--
The water reddens into wine.
5 Then glory, Lord, to thee we pay
For thine Epiphany to-day;
All glory through eternity
To Father, Son, and Spirit be. Amen.
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First Line: | Why, impious Herod, shouldst thou fear |
Latin Title: | Hostis Herodes impie |
Author: | Caelius Sedulius (c. 450) |
Translator: | Percy Dearmer, 1867-1936 |
Publication Date: | 1986 |
Topic: | The Christian Year: Epiphany; Office Hymn |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST VENANTIUS |
Harmonizer: | M. F. |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | Rouen Church Melody, 1728 |
Copyright: | Arr. by permission of Canterbury Press Norwich |