Text:For all the saints who from their labors rest
Author:William Walsham How, 1823-97
Tune:SINE NOMINE
Composer:Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958

455. For all the saints who from their labors rest

1 For all the saints who from their labors rest,
who to the world their Lord by faith confessed,
your name, O Jesus, be for ever blessed.
Hallelujah, hallelujah!

2 You were their rock, their fortress and their might,
you were their captain in the well fought fight;
in deepest darkness still their one true light.
Hallelujah, hallelujah!

3 So may your servants, faithful, true, and bold,
fight as the saints who nobly fought of old,
and win, with them, the victor's crown of gold.
Hallelujah, hallelujah!

4 O blest communion, fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle, they in glory shine,
all yours, all joined in unity divine.
Hallelujah, hallelujah!

5 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.
Hallelujah, hallelujah!

6 The golden evening brightens in the west;
soon, soon to faithful warriors comes their rest,
the peaceful calm of paradise the blest.
Hallelujah, hallelujah!

7 But see, there breaks a yet more glorious day;
the saints triumphant rise in bright array;
the King of glory calls passes on his way.
Hallelujah, hallelujah!

8 From earth's wide bounds and ocean's farthest shore,
through heaven's gate the holy people pour;
the Three-in-One for ever they adore.
Hallelujah, hallelujah!

Text Information
First Line: For all the saints who from their labors rest
Author: William Walsham How, 1823-97 (alt.)
Meter: 10 10.10 and Hallelujahs
Language: English
Publication Date: 1999
Scripture: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Topic: All Saints and All Souls; Communion of Saints; Conflict (6 more...)
Tune Information
Name: SINE NOMINE
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958
Meter: 10 10.10 and Hallelujahs
Key: G Major
Copyright: Music from the "English Hymnal" by permission Oxford University Press



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