O worship the King

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1. Adoru ni nun la Reĝon de glor',
Kaj kantu ni kun laŭdego el kor':
Potenca, am-plena, de ĉio la Font',
Ja Di' suverena, eterna Savont'.

2. Prikantu do Lin, reĝantan kun grac'.
Stelarojn sen fin' Li kreas en spac',
Kaj ankaŭ fulm-nubojn minacajn laŭ form';
Li rajdas kerubojn, heroldojn de l' ŝtorm'.

3. Tutpova Sinjor', pratempe per Vort'
Vi celis nin por eterna bon-sort',
Establis la teron per firma dekret',
Kaj kaŝis misteron en ĉiu floret'.

4. Al la kreitar' ja mankas neni'.
La ter-loĝantar' klarvidas, ke Vi
Provizas abunde por ĉies bezon'.
Ni dankas profunde pro ĉia am-don'.

5. Mallonga la viv' de ni sur la ter';
Fatala la driv' al fina mister';
Sed ne al Infero, ĉar fido al Di'
Kaj la Krist-ofero nin savos de ĝi.

6. Leviĝas de l' ĥor' anĝela la laŭd'
Al Vi, Di-Sinjor', kun ĝoja aplaŭd'.
Simile de l' tero leviĝas, ho Di',
Kun arda sincero laŭdkanto al Vi.

7. Mortema polvid', feblega teran'
Vin kredas kun fid' al via vivoplan':
Tenera kompato, ŝirmanta fortik' —
Kreinto, Helpanto, Savonto, Amik'!

Source: TTT-Himnaro Cigneta #3

Author: Robert Grant

Robert Grant (b. Bengal, India, 1779; d. Dalpoorie, India, 1838) was influenced in writing this text by William Kethe’s paraphrase of Psalm 104 in the Anglo-Genevan Psalter (1561). Grant’s text was first published in Edward Bickersteth’s Christian Psalmody (1833) with several unauthorized alterations. In 1835 his original six-stanza text was published in Henry Elliott’s Psalm and Hymns (The original stanza 3 was omitted in Lift Up Your Hearts). Of Scottish ancestry, Grant was born in India, where his father was a director of the East India Company. He attended Magdalen College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar in 1807. He had a distinguished public career a Governor of Bombay and as a member of the British Parliament, where… Go to person page >

Translator: W. J. Downes

An English Congregationalist minister, Downes was a professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at Western College in the University of Bristol (UK), a member of the board of KELI, and a member of the Esperanto Academy, as well as a member of the editorial committee that produced Adoru Kantante. 44 of his works appeared in AK, and 36 in Adoru. Particularly noteworthy for the quantity and quality of his original hymn texts in Esperanto. Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Adoru ni nun la Reĝon de glor'
Title: O worship the King
English Title: O worship the King, all-glorious above
Author: Robert Grant
Translator: W. J. Downes
Language: Esperanto
Publication Date: 1971
Copyright: This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1971.

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William Croft (b. Nether Ettington, Warwickshire, England, 1678; d. Bath, Somerset, England, 1727) was a boy chorister in the Chapel Royal in London and then an organist at St. Anne's, Soho. Later he became organist, composer, and master of the children of the Chapel Royal, and eventually organist a…

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