Text:For All the Saints Who from Their Labors Rest
Author:William Walsham How
Tune:SINE NOMINE
Composer:R. Vaughan Williams

425. For All the Saints Who from Their Labors Rest

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 may Thy soldiers, faithful, true, and bold,
Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old,
And win with them the victor's crown of gold.
Alleluia! Alleluia!

4 O blest communion, fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
Yet all are one in Thee, for all are Thine.
Alleluia! Alleluia!

5 And when the fight is fierce, the warfare long,
Steals on the ear the distant triumph song,
And hearts are brave again, and arms are strong.
Alleluia! Alleluia!

6 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!

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: For all the saints who from their labors rest
Title: For All the Saints Who from Their Labors Rest
Author: William Walsham How (1864)
Meter: 10. 10. 10. 4.
Publication Date: 1955
Scripture: ; ;
Topic: All Saints' Day; Christ: Captain; Church, The: Church Triumphant (5 more...)
Tune Information
Name: SINE NOMINE
Composer: R. Vaughan Williams (1906; alt., 1927)
Meter: 10. 10. 10. 4.
Key: G Major
Copyright: Music from The Church Hymnary, Revised Edition. Used by permission of Oxford University Press.



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