This Is the Truth That Passes Understanding

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This is the truth that passes understanding

Author: Robert T. Weston
Tune: DONNE SECOURS
Published in 1 hymnal

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This is the truth that passes understanding,
this is the joy to all forever free:
life springs from death and shatters every fetter,
and winter turns to spring eternally.

Source: Singing the Living Tradition #369

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Author: Robert T. Weston

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First Line:	This is the truth that passes understanding
Title:	This Is the Truth That Passes Understanding
Author:	Robert T. Weston
Meter:	11.10.11.10
Language:	English

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DONNE SECOURS

GENEVAN 12 first appeared in the 1551 Genevan Psalter and has thus been attributed to Louis Bourgeois (PHH 3), music editor for the 1551 edition. It is also known as DONNE SECOURS, the first two words of the French text for Psalm 12. The tune is included in many English-language hymnals because of i…

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