Text: | This Day at Your Creating Word |
Author: | William W. How, 1823-97 |
Tune: | WINCHESTER NEW |
1 This day at your creating word
First o'er the earth the light was poured:
O Lord, this day upon us shine,
And fill our souls with light divine.
2 This day the Lord for sinners slain
In might victorious rose again:
O Jesus, raise your people, too,
From death of sin to life in you.
3 This day the Holy Spirit came
With fiery tongues of cloven flame:
O Spirit, fill our hearts this day
With grace to hear and grace to pray.
4 This day of light and life and grace
We gather in our worship-place:
This holy hour, blest gift of love,
Give we again to God above.
5 All praise to God the Father be,
To Christ, who set his people free,
Whom with the Spirit we adore
Forever and forevermore.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | This day at your creating word |
Title: | This Day at Your Creating Word |
Author: | William W. How, 1823-97 (alt.) |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1993 |
Topic: | Opening of Service |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | WINCHESTER NEW |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | B♭ Major |
Source: | Musicalisch Hand-Buch der Geistlichen Melodien, Hamburg, 1690, alt. |
Copyright: | Setting: © 1993 Elfred Bloedel. Used by permission. |