Text: | Brief Life Is Here Our Portion |
Author: | Bernard of Cluny |
Translator: | John Mason Neale |
Tune: | ST. ALPHEGE |
Composer: | Henry J. Gauntlett |
1 Brief life is here our portion;
Brief sorrow, short-lived care:
The life that knows no ending,
The tearless life is there.
2 And now we fight the battle,
But then shall wear the crown
Of full, and everlasting,
And passionless renown.
3 The morning shall awaken,
The shadows shall decay,
And each true-hearted servant
Shall shine as doth the day.
4 There God, our King and Portion,
In fullness of His grace,
Shall we behold for ever,
And worship face to face.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Brief life is here our portion |
Title: | Brief Life Is Here Our Portion |
Author: | Bernard of Cluny (c. 1140) |
Translator: | John Mason Neale (1849) |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1997 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Heaven: Eternal Home |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. ALPHEGE |
Composer: | Henry J. Gauntlett (1852) |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6 |
Key: | G Major |