"A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing"
                      by The Venerable Bede, 673-735
                  Translated by Benjamin Webb, 1820-1885
                                 Text From:
                    THE HANDBOOK TO THE LUTHERAN HYMNAL
             (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1942) p.160



        1. A Hymn of glory let us sing:
        New songs throughout the world shall ring:
        Alleluia! Alleluia!
        Chirst, by a road before untrod,
        Ascendeth to the throne of God.
        Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

        2. The holy apostolic band
        Upon the Mount of Olives stand;
        Alleluia! Alleluia!
        And with His followers they see
        Jesus' resplendent majesty.
        Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

        3. To whom the angels, drawing nigh,
        "Why stand and gaze upon the sky?
        Alleluia! Alleluia!
        This is the Savior!" thus they say;
        "This is His noble triumph-day."
        Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

        4. "Again shall ye behold Him so
        As ye today have seen Him go,
        Alleluia! Alleluia!
        In glorious pomp ascending high,
        Up to the portals of the sky."
        Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

        5. Oh, grant us thitherward to tend
        And with unwearied hearts ascend
        Alleluia! Alleluia!
        Unto Thy kingdom's throne, where Thou,
        As is our faith, art seated now.
        Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

        6. Be Thou our Joy and strong Defense
        Who art our future Recompense:
        Alleluia! Alleluia!
        So shall the light that springs from Thee
        Be ours through all eternity.
        Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

        7. O risen Christ, ascended Lord,
        All praise to Thee let earth accord,
        Alleluia! Alleluia!
        Who art, while endless ages run,
        With Father and with Spirit One.
        Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

        

        Notes from _The Lutheran Hymnal_
        Hymn #212 
        Text: Acts 1: 11
        Author: The Venerable Bede, 735
        Translated by: Benjamin Webb, 1854, alt.
        Titled: "Hymnum canamus gloriae"
        Tune: "Lasst uns erfreuen"
        1st Published in: _Geistliche Kirchengesaeng_
        Town: Cologne, 1623
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