Text: | For All the Saints |
Author: | William W. 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 blest communion, fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle, they in glory shine.
Yet all are one in thee, for all are thine.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
4 And when the strife is fierce, the warfare long,
steals on the ear the distant triumph song,
and hearts are brave again and arms are strong.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
5 But then 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 and ocean's farthest coast,
through gates of pearl stream 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 W. How (1864, alt.) |
Meter: | 10.10.10.Alleluias |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1990 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Conflict, Spirtual; Funerals; All Saints' Day(5 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SINE NOMINE |
Composer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams (1906) |
Meter: | 10.10.10.Alleluias |
Key: | G Major |
Copyright: | Music used by permission of Oxford University Press |