Text: | The royal banners forward go |
Author Verses 1 - 4: | Venantius Fortunatus, 530-609 |
Author Verses 5, 6: | Anonymous |
Tune: | VEXILLA REGIS PRODEUNT |
Arranger: | Ernest White, b. 1899 |
1 The royal banners forward go,
The Cross shows forth in mystic glow
Where he, as man, who gave man breath,
Now bows beneath the yoke of death.
2 Fulfilled is all that David told
In true prophetic song of old;
How God the nations' King should be,
For God is reigning from the Tree. A-men.
3 O Tree of beauty, Tree most fair,
Ordained those holy limbs to bear:
Gone is thy shame, each crimsoned bough
Proclaims the King of glory now.
4 Blest Tree, whose chosen branches bore
The wealth that did the world restore,
The price of humankind to pay,
And spoil the spoiler of his prey.
5 O Cross, our one reliance, hail!
Still may thy power with us avail
More good for righteous souls to win,
And save the sinner from his sin.
6 To Thee, eternal Three in One,
Let homage meet by all be done:
As by the Cross thou dost restore,
So rule and guide us evermore.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The royal banners forward go |
Author Verses 1 - 4: | Venantius Fortunatus, 530-609 |
Author Verses 5, 6: | Anonymous |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1958 |
Topic: | The Church Year: Lent; The Church Year: Palm Sunday; The Church Year: Holy Week |
Source: | Translation Episcopal Hymnal, 1940 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | VEXILLA REGIS PRODEUNT |
Arranger: | Ernest White, b. 1899 |
Key: | e minor |
Source: | Plainsong Melody, Mode I |