Trinity
Holy God, We Praise Thy Name
- Words:
- attr. Ignaz Franz, 1774. Translated by Clarence A. Walworth, 1858.
- Music:
- 'Te Deum' or 'Hursley' or 'Grosser Gott, wir Loben Dich' from Katholisches Gesangbuch,
- Metre:
- 7 8 7 8 7 7
- 1Holy God, we praise Thy Name;Lord of all, we bow before Thee!All on earth Thy scepter claim,All in Heaven above adore Thee;Infinite Thy vast domain,Everlasting is Thy reign.
- 2Hark! the loud celestial hymn Angel choirs above are raising,Cherubim and seraphim,In unceasing chorus praising;Fill the heavens with sweet accord:Holy, holy, holy,Lord.
- 3Lo! the apostolic trainJoin the sacred Name to hallow;Prophets swell the loud refrain,And the white robed martyrs follow;And from morn to set of sun,Through the Church the song goes on.
- 4Holy Father, Holy Son,Holy Spirit, Three we name Thee;While in essence only One,Undivided God we claim Thee;And adoring bend the knee,While we own the mystery.
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- The words are in 228 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.