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Text: | Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle |
Author: | Venantius Fortunatus, 530-609 |
Translator: | Percy Dearmer 1867-1936 |
Tune: | PANGE LINGUA |
1 Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle,
Sing the ending of the fray,
O'er the cross, the victor's trophy,
Sound the loud triumphant lay:
Tell how Christ, the world's Redeemer,
As a Victim won the day.
2 God in pity saw man fallen,
Shamed and sunk in misery,
When he fell on death by tasting
Fruit of the forbidden tree:
Then another tree was chosen
Which the world from death should free.
3 Therefore when the appointed fulness
Of the holy time was come,
He was sent who maketh all things
Forth from God's eternal home:
Thus he came to earth, incarnate,
Offspring of a maiden's womb.
4 Thirty years among us dwelling,
Now at length his hour fulfilled,
Born for this, he meets his Passion,
For that this he freely willed,
On the Cross the Lamb is lifted,
Where his life-blood shall be spilled.
5 To the Trinity be glory,
To the Father and the Son,
With the co-eternal Spirit,
Ever Three and ever One,
One in love and one in splendor,
While unending ages run. Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle |
Latin Title: | Pangue lingua gloriosi proelium certaminis |
Author: | Venantius Fortunatus, 530-609 |
Translator: | Percy Dearmer 1867-1936 (alt.) |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1986 |
Topic: | The Christian Year: Passiontide; Office Hymn |
Notes: | A longer version of this hymn will be found at 517; Alternative tune GRAFTON 202 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | PANGE LINGUA |
Key: | c minor or modal |
Source: | Mode iii |
Copyright: | Arr. by permission of Oxford University Press (from "English Hymnal," 1933) |