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Text:The Head That Once Was Crowned
Author:Thomas Kelly
Tune:MANOAH
Composer:Franz J Haydon

146. The Head That Once Was Crowned

1 The royal banner is unfurled,
The cross is reared on high,
On which the Saviour of the world
Is stretched in agony.

2 See! through His holy hands and feet
The cruel nails they drive:
Our ransom thus is made complete,
Our souls are saved alive.

3 And see! the spear that pierced His side,
And shed that sacred flood,
That holy reconciling tide,
The water and the blood.

4 Hail, holy cross! from thee we learn
The only way to heaven:
And O, to Thee may sinners turn,
And look, and be forgiven!

5 Jehovah, we Thy name adore
In Thee we will rejoice,
And sing, till time shall be no more
The triumphs of the cross.

AMEN.

Text Information
First Line: The royal banner is unfurled
Title: The Head That Once Was Crowned
Author: Thomas Kelly
Meter: C M
Language: English
Publication Date: 1999
Topic: Christ's Passion
Tune Information
Name: MANOAH
Composer: Franz J Haydon
Meter: C M
Key: A♭ Major



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