Communion of Saints
Lord Of Our Life
- Words:
- Matthäus Apelles von Löwenstern, 1644. Translated by Philip Pusey, 1840.
- Music:
- 'Iste Confessor' or 'Rouen' from Poitiers Antiphoner, 1746.
- Setting:
- Healey Willan, 1918, alt.
- Metre:
- 11 11 11 5
- 1Lord of our life, and God of our salvation,Star of our night, and Hope of every nation,Hear and receive Thy church's supplication,Lord God Almighty.
- 2See round Thine Ark the hungry billows curling!See how Thy foes their banners are unfurling!Lord, while their darts envenomed they are hurling,Thou canst preserve us.
- 3Lord, Thou canst help when earthly armor faileth;Lord, Thou canst save when sin itself assaileth;Lord, o'er Thy Rock nor death nor hell prevaileth;Grant us Thy peace, Lord.
- 4Peace, in our hearts, our evil thoughts assuaging,Peace, in Thy Church, where brothers are engaging,Peace, when the world its busy war is waging;Calm Thy foes raging!
- 5Grant us Thy help till backward they are driven;Grant them Thy Truth, that they may be forgiven;Grant peace on earth, and after we have striven,Peace in Thy Heaven.
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In the hymnals
- The words are in 230 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.