Text: | Praise We the Lord This Day |
Tune: | SWABIA |
Adapter: | William H. Havergal, 1793-1870 |
Composer: | Johann M. Spiess, 1715-1772 |
1 Praise we the Lord this day,
This day so long foretold,
Whose promise shone with cheering ray
On waiting saints of old.
2 The prophet gave the sign
For faithful folk to read:
A virgin, born of David's line,
Shall bear the promised seed.
3 Ask not how this should be,
But worship and adore
Like her whom God's own majesty
Came down to shadow o'er.
4 She meekly bowed her head
To hear the gracious word:
Hail, Mary, pure and lowly maid,
The favored of the Lord.
5 How blest shall be her name
In all the Church on earth!
Through her that wondrous myst'ry came,
The incarnate Savior's birth.
6 Praise Christ, the Virgin's Son,
Whom earth and heav'n adore,
With Father, Spirit, Three in One
Both now and evermore.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Praise we the Lord this day |
Title: | Praise We the Lord This Day |
Meter: | SM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2011 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Annunciation of the Lord; Advent IV: B |
Source: | Hymns for Festivals and Saints' Days, 1846 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SWABIA |
Composer: | Johann M. Spiess, 1715-1772 |
Adapter: | William H. Havergal, 1793-1870 |
Meter: | SM |
Key: | D Major |