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Text: | O How Shall We Receive You |
Author: | Paul Gerhardt |
Translator: | Arthur Tozer Russell |
Tune: | ST. THEODULPH |
Composer: | Melchoir Teschner |
1 O how shall we receive you,
How meet you on your way,
Blest hope of every nation,
Our soul's delight and stay?
O Jesus, Jesus, give us
Now by your own pure light
To know whate'er is pleasing
And welcome in your sight.
2 Your Zion palms is spreading,
And branches fresh and fair;
Our souls, to praise awaking,
An anthem shall prepare.
Unending thanks and praises
From our glad hearts shall spring;
And to your name the service
Of all our powers we bring.
3 Love caused your incarnation,
Love blessed humanity.
Your thirst for our salvation
Procured our liberty.
O love beyond all telling,
That led you to embrace,
In love all love excelling,
Our lost and troubled race.
4 You came, O Lord, with gladness,
In mercy and goodwill,
To bring an end to sadness
And bid our fears be still.
We welcome you, our Savior;
Come, gather us to you,
That in your light eternal
Our joyous home we'll view.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O how shall we receive you |
Title: | O How Shall We Receive You |
Translator: | Arthur Tozer Russell (1851) |
Author: | Paul Gerhardt (1653) |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6.D. |
Publication Date: | 1972 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Christian Year: Advent; Christian Year: Palm Sunday |
Copyright: | Words altered from Hymnal for Colleges and Schools, edited by E. Harold Geer; used by permission of Yale University Press. |
Notes: | and others; As in Hymnal for Colleges and Schools, 1956; alt., 1972 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. THEODULPH |
Composer: | Melchoir Teschner (1615) |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6.D. |
Key: | B♭ Major |