O Christ, Thou hast ascended

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O Christ, Thou hast ascended

Author: Edward Henry Bickersteth
Published in 13 hymnals

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1 O Christ, thou hast ascended
Triumphantly on high,
By cherub guards attended
And armies of the sky:
There, there thou standest pleading
The virtue of thy blood,
For sinners interceding,
Our Advocate with God.

2 Heaven's gates unfold above thee:
But canst thou, Lord, forget
The little band who love thee
And gaze from Olivet?
Nay, on thy breast engraven
Thou bearest every name,
Our Priest in earth and heaven
Eternally the same.

3 Oh, for the priceless merit
Of thy redeeming cross,
Vouchsafe thy sevenfold Spirit,
And turn to gain our loss;
Till we by strong endeavor
In heart and mind ascend,
And dwell with thee forever
In raptures without end.

Source: Laudes Domini: a selection of spiritual songs ancient and modern #410

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Author: Edward Henry Bickersteth

Bickersteth, Edward Henry, D.D., son of Edward Bickersteth, Sr. born at Islington, Jan. 1825, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. with honours, 1847; M.A., 1850). On taking Holy Orders in 1848, he became curate of Banningham, Norfolk, and then of Christ Church, Tunbridge Wells. His preferment to the Rectory of Hinton-Martell, in 1852, was followed by that of the Vicarage of Christ Church, Hampstead, 1855. In 1885 he became Dean of Gloucester, and the same year Bishop of Exeter. Bishop Bickersteth's works, chiefly poetical, are:— (l) Poems, 1849; (2) Water from the Well-spring, 1852; (3) The Rock of Ages, 1858 ; (4) Commentary on the New Testament, 1864; (5) Yesterday, To-day, and For Ever, 1867; (6) The Spirit of Life, 1868;… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	O Christ, Thou hast ascended
Author:	Edward Henry Bickersteth
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

0 Christ, Thou hast ascended. Bp. E. H. Bickersteth. [Ascension.] Written in 1872, and printed in the Record newspaper of the same year. Included in the Hymnal Companion in 1876.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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GREENLAND (Haydn)

GREENLAND, an example of the popular nineteenth-century practice of creating hymn tunes from the works of classical composers, is thought to be originally from one of J. Michael Haydn's (PHH 67) "Deutschen Kirchen Messen." The tune acquired its title from its occasional association with the text "Fr…

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ST. HILDA (Knecht)

The original form of ST. EDITH (also known as ST. HILDA) was composed in 1793 by Justin Heinrich Knecht for the text “Der neidern Menschhiet Hülle.” It was published in Vollstandige Sammlung … Choralmelodien (1799), edited by Johann Friedrich Christmann and Knecht, who composed ninety-seven o…

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[Nun bricht aus allen Zweigen] (Beethoven)

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