Christmas
Let Our Gladness Have No End
- Words:
- From the Kancional, by Tobias Zavorka, 1602. Translator unknown.
- Music:
- 'Narodil se Kristus Pán' or 'Salvator Natus' 15th Century Bohemian.
- Setting:
- "Carols Old And Carols New", 1916.
- Metre:
- 7 7 6 6 6 with Alleluias
- 1Let our gladness have no end,Hallelujah!For to earth did Christ descend.Hallelujah!On this day God gave us Christ,His Son, to save us;Christ,His Son, to save us.
- 2See, the loveliest blooming rose,Hallelujah!From the branch of Jesse grows.Hallelujah!On this day God gave us Christ,His Son, to save us;Christ,His Son, to save us.
- 3Into flesh is made the Word.Hallelujah!He, our refuge and our Lord.Hallelujah!On this day God gave us Christ,His Son, to save us;Christ,His Son, to save us.
Scripture
Topics
In the hymnals
- The words are in 14 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Narodil se Kristus Pán, is in 30 hymnals. The tune →
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. 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.