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Text: | For All the Saints |
Author: | William Walsham How |
Tune: | SINE NOMINE |
Composer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
Media: | Audio recording |
1 For all the saints who from their labors rest,
who thee by faith before the world confessed,
thy name, O Jesus, be forever blest.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
2 Thou wast their rock, their fortress, and their might;
thou, Lord, their captain in the well-fought fight;
thou, in the darkness drear, their one true light.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
3 O blest communion, fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle; they in glory shine;
yet all are one in thee, for all are thine.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
4 And when the strife is fierce, the warfare long,
steals on the ear the distant triumph song,
and hearts are brave again, and arms are strong.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
5 From earth's wide bounds, from ocean's farthest coast,
through gates of pearl streams in the countless host,
singing to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | For all the saints who from their labors rest |
Title: | For All the Saints |
Author: | William Walsham How (1864) |
Meter: | 10.10.10 with alleluias |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
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Topic: | Christian Year: All Saints; The Church; Community in Christ(4 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SINE NOMINE |
Composer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams (1906) |
Meter: | 10.10.10 with alleluias |
Key: | G Major |
The broad and sweeping tune with which this hymn is so closely identified was created to be sung during a reverent but dramatic procession at the beginning of an All Saints’ Day service, an enacted representation of the enduring “fellowship divine” celebrated by this text.
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Audio recording: | Audio (MP3) |