Rex regum (John Stainer)
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CPDL #15594: NWC Sibelius4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2007-12-03). Score information: A4, 1 page, 28 kbytes Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Based on the edition from The Cyber Hymnal™ - File Sizes: PDF: 28 KB, 2nd PDF: 22 KB, MIDI: 2 KB, NWC: 2 KB, Sib4: 30 KB.
General Information
Title: Rex regum
Composer: John Stainer
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymns Meter: (CMD)
Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard
Published: Tune: Rex Regum, John Stainer (1840 - 1901); Lyrics: Charles Wesley, Funeral Hymns, second series, 1759.
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Cyber Hymnal™ entry for Hymn tune “Rex regum”:
Original text and translations
English text
- 1.
- And let this feeble body fail,
- And let it droop and die;
- My soul shall quit the mournful vale,
- And soar to worlds on high;
- Shall join the disembodied saints,
- And find its long sought rest,
- That only bliss for which it pants,
- In my Redeemer’s breast.
- 2.
- In hope of that immortal crown
- I now the cross sustain,
- And gladly wander up and down,
- And smile at toil and pain:
- I suffer out my threescore years,
- Till my Deliverer come,
- And wipe away His servant’s tears,
- And take His exile home.
- 3.
- O what hath Jesus bought for me!
- Before my ravished eyes
- Rivers of life divine I see,
- And trees of paradise:
- I see a world of spirits bright,
- Who taste the pleasures there;
- They all are robed in spotless white,
- And conquering palms they bear.
- 4.
- O what are all my sufferings here,
- If, Lord, Thou count me meet
- With that enraptured host to appear,
- And worship at Thy feet!
- Give joy or grief, give ease or pain,
- Take life or friends away,
- But let me find them all again
- In that eternal day.
Lyrics: Charles Wesley, Funeral Hymns, second series, 1759.