Text: | From East to West, from Shore to Shore |
Author: | Coelius Sedulius, d. 450 |
Translator: | John Ellerton, 1826-93 |
Tune: | CHRISTUM WIR SOLLEN LOBEN SCHON |
1 From east to west, from shore to shore,
Let every heart awake and sing
The holy Child whom Mary bore,
The Christ, the everlasting King.
2 Behold, the world's Creator wears
The form and fashion of a slave;
Our very flesh our Maker shares,
His fallen creature, man, to save.
3 For this how wondrously he wrought!
A maiden, in her lowly place,
Became, in ways beyond all thought,
The chosen vessel of his grace.
4 And while the angels in the sky
Sang praise above the silent field,
To shepherds poor, the Lord most high,
The one great Shepherd, was revealed.
5 All glory for this blesséd morn
To God the Father ever be;
All praise to thee, O Virgin-born,
All praise, O Holy Ghost, to thee. Amen.
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First Line: | From east to west, from shore to shore |
Title: | From East to West, from Shore to Shore |
Translator: | John Ellerton, 1826-93 |
Author: | Coelius Sedulius, d. 450 (cento) |
Meter: | LM |
Publication Date: | 1969 |
Topic: | The Christian Year: Second Sunday After Christmas |
Notes: | Latin: A solis ortus cardine |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | CHRISTUM WIR SOLLEN LOBEN SCHON |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | C Major |
Source: | Enchiridion, Erfurt, 1524 |