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Text:Where is this stupendous stranger?
Author:Christopher Smart, 1722-1771
Tune:KIT SMART
Composer:Alec Wyton, 1921-

491. Where is this stupendous stranger?

1 Where is this stupendous stranger?
Prophets, shepherds, kings, advise.
Lead me to my Master's manger,
show me where my Savior lies.

2 O Most Mighty! O Most Holy!
Far beyond the seraph's thought:
art thou then so weak and lowly
as unheeded prophets taught?

3 O the magnitude of meekness!
Worth from worth immortal sprung;
O the strength of infant weakness,
if eternal is so young!

4 God all-bounteous, all-creative,
whom no ills from good dissuade,
is incarnate, and a native
of the very world he made.

Text Information
First Line: Where is this stupendous stranger?
Author: Christopher Smart, 1722-1771 (alt.)
Meter: 87. 87
Language: English
Publication Date: 1985
Topic: Jesus Christ our Lord
Tune Information
Name: KIT SMART
Composer: Alec Wyton, 1921-
Meter: 87. 87
Key: C Major
Copyright: Copyright © 1969 by Hope Publishing Company, Carol Stream, IL 60188. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.



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