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Text:What are these soul-reviving strains
Tune:ZION'S HILL
Composer:Wm. B. Bradbury

286. What are these soul-reviving strains

1 What are these soul-re­viv­ing strains
Which ec­ho thus from Sa­lem’s plains?
What an­thems loud and loud­er still,
So sweetly sound from Zion's hill?

Chorus:
Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna to the Lamb of God!
Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna, in the highest, in the highest, in the highest.

2 Lo! ’tis an in­fant chor­us sings,
Hosannas to the King of kings
The Sav­iour comes! and babes pro­claim
Salvation sent in Je­sus’ name. [Chorus]

3 Messiah's name shall joy impart,
Alike to Jew and Gentile heart;
He bled for us, he bled for you,
And we will sing hosanna too. [Chorus]

4 Proclaim hosannas loud and clear;
See Da­vid’s Son and Lord ap­pear!
All praise on earth to him be given,
And glory shout thro' highest heaven. [Chorus]

Text Information
First Line: What are these soul-reviving strains
Refrain First Line: Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna to the Lamb of God!
Publication Date: 1865
Notes: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: ZION'S HILL
Composer: Wm. B. Bradbury
Key: A Major



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