Text: | For All the Saints |
Author: | William W. How (1823-1897) |
Tune: | SINE NOMINE |
Composer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) |
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 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,
Thro’ 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 W. How (1823-1897) |
Meter: | 10.10.10.Alleluias |
Publication Date: | 1985 |
Topic: | Doctrine: Eternal Life |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SINE NOMINE |
Composer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) |
Meter: | 10.10.10.Alleluias |
Incipit: | 53215 61253 32177 |
Key: | G Major or modal |
Notes: | Alternate tune, ENGELBERG. no. 32 |
Music from The English Hymnal by permission of Oxford University Press.