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| Text: | True God and Yet a Man |
| Tune: | DIVINE PARADOX |
| Composer: | J. Dowland, c. 1563-1626 |
1 True God and yet a Man?
True maid and yet a mother?
Thought wonders how thought can
Conceive one or the other.
2 A God and can He die?
A dead Man, can He live?
What can thought well reply?
What reason reason give?
3 God, truth itself does teach;
Our thoughts sink too far under
For reason's pow'r to reach.
Believe and leave to wonder!
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | True God and yet a Man? |
| Title: | True God and Yet a Man |
| Meter: | 67 67 |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1996 |
| Topic: | Annunciation; Lent 5 |
| Source: | English, 15th cent. alt. |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | DIVINE PARADOX |
| Composer: | J. Dowland, c. 1563-1626 |
| Meter: | 67 67 |
| Key: | F Major |
| Source: | New Catholic Hymnal, 1971 (adapted by) |
| Copyright: | Tune and setting © 1971 by Faber Music Limited. Reprinted by permission. |
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