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Text: | O Love, How Deep, How Broad |
Author (attributed): | Thomas à Kempis |
Translator: | Benjamin Webb |
Tune: | DEO GRACIAS |
1 O love, how deep, how broad, how high!
It fills the heart with ecstasy,
that God, the Son of God, should take
our mortal form for mortals’ sake.
2 For us he was baptized and bore
his holy fast, and hungered sore.
For us temptation sharp he knew,
for us the tempter overthrew.
3 For us he prayed, for us he taught,
for us his daily works he wrought,
by words and signs and actions thus
still seeking not himself but us.
4 For us to wicked hands betrayed,
scourged, mocked, in purple robe arrayed,
he bore the shameful cross and death,
for us at length gave up his breath.
5 Eternal glory to our God
for love so deep, so high, so broad;
the Trinity whom we adore
forever and forevermore.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O love, how deep, how broad, how high! |
Title: | O Love, How Deep, How Broad |
Author (attributed): | Thomas à Kempis (15th c.) |
Translator: | Benjamin Webb |
Meter: | LM |
Publication Date: | 2020 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Heritage: Before 1500; Incarnation; Jesus Christ: Baptism of(5 more...) |
Source: | trans. Benjamin Webb (England), The Hymnal Noted, 1851, alt. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | DEO GRACIAS |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | d minor |
Source: | English traditional, 15th c. |