The Cyber Hymnal ‎#2074

2074. The God Whom Earth, and Sea, and Sky

1. The God whom earth, and sea, and sky,
Adore, and laud, and magnify,
Who o’er their threefold fabric reigns,
The virgin’s spotless womb contains.

2. The God whose will by moon and sun
And all things in due course is done,
Is borne upon a maiden’s breast,
By fullest heavenly grace possessed.

3. How blest the mother, in whose shrine
The great Artificer Divine,
Whose hand contains the earth and sky,
Vouchsafed, as in His ark, to lie!

4. Blest, in the message Gabriel brought;
Blest, by the work the Spirit wrought:
From whom the Great Desire of earth
Took human flesh and human birth.

5. All honor, laud, and glory be,
O Jesu, virgin-born, to Thee!
All glory, as is ever meet,
To Father and to Paraclete.

Text Information

• First Line: The God whom earth, and sea, and sky
• Title: The God Whom Earth, and Sea, and Sky
• Latin Title: Quem terra, pontus, aethera
• Author (attributed to): Venantius Fortunatus, 530-609
• Translator (from Latin): John M. Neale
• Meter: LM
• Language: English
• Source: The Hymnal Noted, 1854
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: Alternate tune: PUER NOBIS NASCITUR, Trier manuscript, 15th Century

Tune Information

• Name: ST. AMBROSE
• Composer: François de la Feillée (1808)
• Meter: LM
• Incipit: 11234 32155 65354
• Key: F Major
• Source: Méthode du plain-chant, by François de la Feillée, 1808
• Copyright: Public Domain