121 | CPWI Hymnal#122 | 123 |
Text: | O thou who dost to man accord |
Author (attributed to): | Gregory I , 540-604 |
Translator: | John William Hewitt, 1824-1886 |
Tune: | INNSBRUCK |
Composer: | Heinrich Isaac, 1450 to 55-1517 |
1 O thou who dost to man accord
his highest prize, his best reward,
thou hope of all our race;
Jesu, to thee we now draw near,
our earnest supplications hear,
who humbly seek thy face.
2 With self-accusing voice within
our conscience tells of many a sin
in thought, and word, and deed:
O cleanse that conscience from all stain,
the penitent restore again,
from every burthen freed.
3 If thou reject us, who shall give
our fainting spirits strength to live?
’Tis thine alone to spare;
with cleansèd hearts to pray aright,
and find acceptance in thy sight,
be this our lowly prayer.
4 ’Tis thou has blessed this solemn fast;
so may its days by us be passed
in self-control severe,
that, when our Easter morn we hail,
its mystic feast we may not fail
to keep with conscience clear.
5 O blessèd Trinity, bestow
thy pardoning grace on us below,
and shield us evermore;
until, within thy courts above,
we see thy face, and sing thy love,
and with thy saints adore.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O thou who dost to man accord |
Latin Title: | Summi largitor praemii |
Author (attributed to): | Gregory I , 540-604 |
Translator: | John William Hewitt, 1824-1886 |
Meter: | 8.8.6.8.8.6. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2010 |
Topic: | Hymns for the Church Year: Lent |
Source: | Tr.: Verses by a Country Curate, 1859 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | INNSBRUCK |
Composer: | Heinrich Isaac, 1450 to 55-1517 |
Meter: | 8.8.6.8.8.6. |
Key: | G Major |