Debout sainte cohorte

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1 Debout, sainte cohorte,
soldats du Roi des rois!
Tenez d’une main forte
l’étendard de la croix.
Au sentier de la gloire
Jésus-Christ nous conduit;
De victoire en victoire
Il mène qui Le suit.

2 La trompette résonne:
debout, vaillants soldats!
L’immortelle couronne
est le prix des combats.
Si l’ennemi fait rage,
soyez fermes et forts;
Redoublez de courage
s’il redouble d’efforts.

3 Debout pour la bataille,
point de trêve aux vaincus!
Si votre bras défaille
regardez à Jésus!
De l’armure invincible
soldats, revêtez-vous;
Le triomphe est possible
pour qui lutte à genoux.

4 Debout, debout encore!
Luttez, jusqu’au matin;
Déjà brille l’aurore,
à l’horizon lointain.
Bientôt jetant nos armes
aux pieds du Roi des rois,
Les chants après les armes,
le trône après la croix.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #13950

Author: George Duffield

Duffield, George, Jr., D.D., son of the Rev. Dr. Duffield, a Presbyterian Minister, was born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Sept. 12, 1818, and graduated at Yale College, and at the Union Theological Seminary, New York. From 1840 to 1847 he was a Presbyterian Pastor at Brooklyn; 1847 to 1852, at Bloomfield, New Jersey; 1852 to 1861, at Philadelphia; 1861 to 1865, at Adrian, Michigan; 1865 to 1869, at Galesburg, Illinois; 1869, at Saginaw City, Michigan; and from 1869 at Ann Arbor and Lansing, Michigan. His hymns include;— 1. Blessed Saviour, Thee I love. Jesus only. One of four hymns contributed by him to Darius E. Jones's Temple Melodies, 1851. It is in 6 stanzas of 6 lines. In Dr. Hatfield's Church Hymnbook it is given in 3 s… Go to person page >

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First Line: Debout sainte cohorte
Author: George Duffield
Copyright: Public Domain

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WEBB

George J. Webb (b. Rushmore Lodge, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, 1803; d. Orange, NJ, 1887) composed WEBB (also known as MORNING LIGHT) on a voyage from England to the United States. The tune was published in The Odeon, a collection of secular music compiled by Webb and Lowell Mason (PHH 96) i…

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