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| Text: | For All the Saints |
| Author: | William Walsham How |
| Tune: | SINE NOMINE |
| Composer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
1 For all the saints who from their labors rest,
who thee by faith before the world confessed,
thy name, O Jesus, be forever blest.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
2 Thou wast their rock, their fortress, and their might;
thou, Lord, their Captain in the well-fought fight;
thou, in the darkness drear, their one true light.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
3 O may thy soldiers faithful, true, and bold,
fight as the saints who nobly fought of old,
and win with them the victor's crown of gold.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
4 The golden evening brightens in the west;
soon, soon to faithful warriors comes their rest;
sweet is the calm of paradise the blest.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
5 But lo! there breaks a yet more glorious day;
the saints triumphant rise in bright array;
the King of glory passes on his way.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
6 From earth's wide bounds, from ocean's farthest coast,
through gates of pearl streams in the countless host,
singing to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
Alleluia! Alleluia!
| Text Information | |
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| First Line: | For all the saints who from their labors rest |
| Title: | For All the Saints |
| Author: | William Walsham How (1864, 1875) |
| Meter: | 10.10.10.al. |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1990 |
| Scripture: | ; |
| Topic: | Funerals; Christ: Rock; Christians: Triumph of (3 more...) |
| Tune Information | |
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| Name: | SINE NOMINE |
| Composer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams (1906) |
| Meter: | 10.10.10.al. |
| Key: | G Major |
| Copyright: | Tune from the English Hymnal by permission of Oxford University Press. |
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