Text: | On Jordan's banks the Baptist's cry |
Author: | Charles Coffin, 1676 - 1749 |
Translator: | John Chandler, 1806 - 76 |
Tune: | ALSTONE |
Composer: | Christopher Edwin Willing, 1830 - 1904 |
1 On Jordan's banks the Baptist's cry
Announces that the Lord is nigh;
Awake and hearken, for he brings
Glad tidings of the King of kings.
2 Then cleansed be every breast from sin,
Make straight the way for God within;
And let us all our hearts prepare
For Christ to come and enter there. A-men.
3 For thou art our salvation, Lord,
Our refuge and our great reward;
Without thy grace we waste away
Like flowers that wither and decay.
4 Stretch forth thy hand, to health restore,
And make us rise to fall no more;
Once more upon thy people shine,
And fill the world with love divine.
5 All praise, eternal Son, to thee
Whose advent sets thy people free,
Whom with the Father we adore,
And Holy Ghost, for evermore.
Amen.
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First Line: | On Jordan's banks the Baptist's cry |
Translator: | John Chandler, 1806 - 76 |
Author: | Charles Coffin, 1676 - 1749 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1958 |
Topic: | The Church Year: Advent |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ALSTONE |
Composer: | Christopher Edwin Willing, 1830 - 1904 |
Meter: | L. M. |
Key: | C Major |