Text: | Lift Up Your Heads, Rejoice |
Author: | T. T. Lynch |
Tune: | TALLIS' SEVENTH TUNE |
Composer: | Thomas Tallis |
1 Lift up your heads, rejoice: redemption draweth nigh;
now breathes a softer air, now shines a milder sky;
the early trees put forth their new and tender leaf;
hushed is the moaning wind that told of winter's grief.
2 Lift up your heads, rejoice: redemption draweth nigh;
now mount the leader clouds, now flames the darkn'ing sky;
the early scattered drops descend with heavy fall,
and to the waiting earth the hidden thunders call.
3 Lift up your heads, rejoice: redemption draweth nigh;
O note the varying signs of earth and air and sky.
the God of glory comes in gentleness and might,
to comfort and alarm, to succor and to smite.
4 He come, the wide world's King; he comes, the true heart's friend,
new gladness to begin, and ancient wrong to end;
he comes to fill with light the weary, waiting eye:
lift up your heads, rejoice: redemption draweth nigh.
Text Information | |
---|---|
First Line: | Lift up your heads, rejoice |
Title: | Lift Up Your Heads, Rejoice |
Author: | T. T. Lynch (1856) |
Meter: | 6.6.6.6 D |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1985 |
Scripture: | ; ; |
Topic: | Jesus Christ: Triumphal Entry |
Tune Information | |
---|---|
Name: | TALLIS' SEVENTH TUNE |
Composer: | Thomas Tallis (c. 1557) |
Meter: | 6.6.6.6 D |
Key: | F Major |