At the Lamb's High Feast We Sing

Representative Text

1 At the Lamb's high feast we sing
praise to our victorious King,
who hath washed us in the tide
flowing from His piercèd side;
praise we Him whose love divine
gives His sacred blood for wine,
gives His body for the feast,
Christ the Victim, Christ the Priest.

2 Where the paschal blood is poured,
death's dark angel sheathes his sword;
Israel's hosts triumphant go
through the wave that drowns the foe.
Praise we Him, whose blood was shed,
Paschal Victim, Paschal Bread;
with sincerity and love
eat we manna from above.

3 Mighty Victim from the sky,
pow'rs of hell beneath Thee lie;
death is conquered in the fight,
Thou hast brought us life and light;
hymns of glory and of praise,
risen Lord, to Thee we raise;
Holy Father, praise to Thee,
with the Spirit, ever be.


Source: Hymns to the Living God #284

All representative texts • Compare texts^ top

Translator: Robert Campbell

Robert Campbell was an advocate residing in Edinburgh. He is not much known as an author, but some of his hymns have been adopted in several hymnals. He was Roman Catholic. His death occurred in 1868. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.… Go to person page >

^ top

Text Information

Related Texts

First Line: At the Lamb's high feast we sing
Title: At the Lamb's High Feast We Sing
Latin Title: Ad regias Agni dapes
Translator: Robert Campbell (1849)
Meter: 7.7.7.7 D
Source: Latin, 4th century
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
^ top

Notes

At the Lamb's High Feast we sing. By R. Campbell, written in 1849 [C. MSS.], and first printed in his collection commonly known as the St. Andrew's Hymnal, 1850, in 4 stanzas of 8 lines. In the original manuscripts the first two lines are added as a refrain to each verse, but are omitted in the printed text. Cooke and Denton's Hymnal was the first to bring it into prominent notice, although in an altered form which has been copied by many compilers. Its use exceeds that of all other translations of the "Ad Regias Agni" put together; being found in a more or less correct form, in the most important collections of the Church of England. Many of the alterations in Hymns Ancient & Modern, Church Hymns, Thring, and others date from Cooke and Denton's Hymnal, 1853, the Salisbury Hymn Book 1857, and others. Another arrangement of Campbell's text is, "To the Lamb's High Feast we press" given in Rev. Francis Pott's Collection, 1861, No. 90. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
^ top

Tune

SALZBURG (Hintze)

The tune SALZBURG, named after the Austrian city made famous by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was first published anonymously in the nineteenth edition of Praxis Pietatis Melica (1678); in that hymnbook's twenty-fourth edition (1690) the tune was attributed to Jakob Hintze (b. Bernau, Germany, 1622; d. B…

Go to tune page >


SONNE DER GERECHTIGKEIT

SONNE DER GERECHTIGKEIT was originally the tune to a fifteenth-century folk song, "Der reich Mann war geritten aus," and it was adopted by the Bohemian Brethren for 1566 hymnal, Kirchengeseng. The tune is thus a contrafactum, changed from the folk/court use to church use. The title is the German inc…

Go to tune page >


ST. GEORGE'S WINDSOR (Elvey)

George J. Elvey (PHH 48) composed ST. GEORGE'S WINDSOR as a setting for James Montgomery's text "Hark! The Song of Jubilee," with which it was published in Edward H. Thorne's Selection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1858). The tune has been associated with Alford's text since publication of the hymn in th…

Go to tune page >


All tunes published with 'At the Lamb's High Feast We Sing'^ top

Timeline

^ top

Media

You have access to this FlexScore.
Download:
General Settings
Stanza Selection
Voice Selection
Text size:
Music size:
Transpose (Half Steps):
Capo:
Contacting server...
Contacting server...

Questions? Check out the FAQ

A separate copy of this score must be purchased for each choir member. If this score will be projected or included in a bulletin, usage must be reported to a licensing agent (e.g. CCLI, OneLicense, etc).

This is a preview of your FlexScore.
The Cyber Hymnal #290
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)
^ top

Instances

Instances (1 - 34 of 34)Text InfoTune InfoTextScoreFlexScoreAudioPage Scan
Ancient and Modern: hymns and songs for refreshing worship #198Text
Anglican Hymns Old and New (Rev. and Enl.) #51
Catholic Book of Worship III #375Flexscore
Christian Worship: a Lutheran hymnal #141Text
Church Hymnal, Fifth Edition #254
Common Praise (1998) #207Text
Common Praise: A new edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern #138Page Scan
Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #53TextPage Scan
Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary #310Text
Evangelical Lutheran Worship #362TextPage Scan
Gather (3rd ed.) #536Page Scan
Gather Comprehensive #433TextPage Scan
Gather Comprehensive, Second Edition #463Page Scan
Hymnal 1982: according to the use of the Episcopal Church #174TextFlexscorePage Scan
Hymnal Supplement II #11
Hymnal: A Worship Book #262
Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Standard Edition #81
Hymns Old and New: New Anglican #45
Hymns to the Living God #284TextPage Scan
Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) #316Text
Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #832TextFlexscoreAudioPage Scan
Lutheran Service Book #633Text
Lutheran Worship #126Text
Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song #449
Praise y Adoración: a bilingual hymnal : un himnario bilingüe #76a
Scripture Song Database #363
The Covenant Hymnal: a worshipbook #556
The Cyber Hymnal #290TextScoreAudio
The New English Hymnal #104TextPage Scan
Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) #420TextPage Scan
Worship (3rd ed.) #459TextPage Scan
Worship (3rd ed.) #460TextPage Scan
Worship (4th ed.) #512
Worship Supplement 2000 #736Text
Include 124 pre-1979 instances
All instances^ top
Suggestions or corrections? Contact us


Advertisements