Text: | All praise to thee, eternal Lord |
Author: | Martin Luther |
Tune: | HARMONY GROVE |
Composer: | Henry K. Oliver |
1 All praise to thee, eternal Lord,
Clothed in a garb of flesh and blood;
Choosing a manger for thy throne,
While worlds on worlds are thine alone!
2 Once did the skies before thee bow;
A virgin's arms contain thee now:
Angels, who did in thee rejoice,
Now listen to thy infant voice.
3 A little child, thou art our guest,
That weary ones in thee may rest;
Forlorn and lowly is thy birth,
That we may rise to heaven from earth.
4 Thou comest in the darksome night,
To make us children of the light;
To make us, in the realms divine,
Like thy own angels round thee shine.
5 All this for us thy love hath done,
By this to thee our love is won;
For this we tune our cheerful lays,
And tell our thanks in songs of praise.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | All praise to thee, eternal Lord |
Author: | Martin Luther |
Publication Date: | 1886 |
Topic: | Christ: First Advent |
Notes: | Public Domain. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | HARMONY GROVE |
Composer: | Henry K. Oliver |
Meter: | L. M. |
Key: | A Major |
Notes: | Now Public Domain. Alternate tunes: #256, 223, or 47. |