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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.
Refrain:
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. [Refrain]
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. [Refrain]
4. O blest communion, fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
yet all are one in thee, for all are thine. [Refrain]
5. 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. [Refrain]
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:
(Refrain)
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) |
Refrain First Line: | Alleluia, Alleluia |
Meter: | 10 10 10 with Alleluias |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1989 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | New Heaven and a New Earth: Communion of the Saints; The Sacraments and Rites of the Church: Funeral and Memorial Service; Adoration and Praise(6 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SINE NOMINE |
Composer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams (1906) |
Meter: | 10 10 10 with Alleluias |
Key: | G Major |
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