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#428 from Lutheran Book of Worship
O God of earth and altar
Tune
King's Lynn
Metric Index
76 76 D
Key & Modality
d minor
Last uses
No previous uses
Poem Words (three verses)
1.
O God of earth and altar,
Bow down and hear our cry;
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our people drift and die;
The walls of gold entomb us;
The swords of scorn divide.
Take not thy thunder from us,
But take away our pride.
Bow down and hear our cry;
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our people drift and die;
The walls of gold entomb us;
The swords of scorn divide.
Take not thy thunder from us,
But take away our pride.
2.
From all that terror teaches,
From lies of tongue and pen,
From all the easy speeches
That comfort cruel men,
From sale and profanation
Of honor, and the sword,
From sleep, and from damnation,
Deliver us, good Lord!
From lies of tongue and pen,
From all the easy speeches
That comfort cruel men,
From sale and profanation
Of honor, and the sword,
From sleep, and from damnation,
Deliver us, good Lord!
3.
Tie in a living tether
The prince and priest and thrall;
Bind all our lives together;
Smite us, and save us all;
In ire and exultation,
Aflame with faith, and free,
Lift up a living nation,
A single sword to thee.
The prince and priest and thrall;
Bind all our lives together;
Smite us, and save us all;
In ire and exultation,
Aflame with faith, and free,
Lift up a living nation,
A single sword to thee.
Hymn References
Author
Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936
Publication Date
1978
Source
English folk tune
Topic
Society; Lent 3 (Year B); Pentecost 15 (Year C); Pentecost 26 (Year A); Nation (2 more...)
Other Hymns By Tune (in Zack's Database)
#305 in Evangelical Lutheran Worship / When Jesus came to Jordan (d minor ) [click to view]#420 in Evangelical Lutheran Worship / By all your saints still striving (d minor ) [click to view]
#231 in The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal) / By all your saints still striving (d minor ) [click to view]
#591 in The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal) / O God of earth and altar (F Major ) [click to view]
#177 in Lutheran Book of Worship / By all your saints in warfare (d minor ) [click to view]
#178 in Lutheran Book of Worship / By all your saints in warfare (d minor ) [click to view]
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