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Text: | From east to west, from shore to shore |
Author: | Coelius Sedulius, c. 450 |
Translator: | John Ellerton, 1826 - 93 |
Tune: | CHRISTUM WIR SOLLEN LOBEN SCHON |
1 From east to west, from shore to shore,
Let every heart awake and sing
The holy Child whom Mary bore,
The Christ, the everlasting King.
2 Behold, the world's Creator wears
The form and fashion of a slave;
Our very flesh our Maker shares,
His fallen creature, man, to save. A-men.
3 For this how wondrously he wrought!
A maiden, in her lowly place,
Became, in ways beyond all thought,
The chosen vessel of his grace.
4 And while the angels in the sky
Sang praise above the silent field,
To shepherds poor the Lord most high,
The one great Shepherd, was revealed.
5 All glory for this blessèd morn
To God the Father ever be;
All praise to thee, O Virgin-born,
All praise, O Holy Ghost, to thee.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | From east to west, from shore to shore |
Author: | Coelius Sedulius, c. 450 |
Translator: | John Ellerton, 1826 - 93 |
Meter: | L. M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1958 |
Topic: | The Church Year: Christmas |
Notes: | This hymn may also be sung to O JESU CHRIST, MEIN LEBENS LICHT (No. 376). |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | CHRISTUM WIR SOLLEN LOBEN SCHON |
Meter: | L. M. |
Key: | e minor |
Source: | Geistliche Lieder, Wittenberg, 1535. |