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Text:"Hallelujah!"
Translator:John Chandler
Tune:HAMDEN
Composer:Lowell Mason

534. "Hallelujah!"

1 Hallelujah! best and sweetest
Of the hymns of praise above;
Hallelujah! thou repeatest,
Angel Host, these notes of love;
This ye utter,
While your golden harps ye move.

2 Hallelujah! Church Victorious,
Join the concert of the sky;
Hallelujah! bright and glorious,
Lift, ye Saints, this strain on high;
We, poor exiles,
Join not yet your melody.

3 Hallelujah! strains of gladness,
Suit not souls with anguish torn;
Hallelujah! sounds of sadness
Best become the heart forlorn;
Our offences
We will bitter tears must mourn.

4 But our earnest supplication,
Holy God, we raise to thee;
Visit us with thy salvation,
Make us all thy joys to see.
Hallelujah!
Ours at length this strain shall be.

Text Information
First Line: Hallelujah! best and sweetest
Title: "Hallelujah!"
Translator: John Chandler
Language: English
Publication Date: 1890
Topic: Missions and Growth; Church: Missions of; Church: Triumph of (1 more...)
Tune Information
Name: HAMDEN
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: 8s, 7s, 4s
Key: B♭ Major



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