Justification
O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High
- Words:
- Unknown, 15th Century; Translated by Benjamin Webb, 1852, alt.
- Music:
- 'Deo Gracias' or 'Agincourt' traditional English, circa 1415.
- Setting:
- Charles Winfred Douglas, 1918, alt.
- Metre:
- 8 8 8 8
- 1O love, how deep, how broad, how high,How passing thought and fantasy,That God, the Son of God, should takeOur mortal form for mortals' sake!
- 2He sent no angel to our raceOf higher or of lower place,But wore the robe of human frameAnd He Himself, to this world came.
- 3Nor willed He only to appear;His pleasure was to tarry here;And God and Man with man would beThe space of thirty years and three.
- 4For us baptized, for us He boreHis holy fast and hungered sore,For us temptations sharp He knew;For us the tempter overthrew.
- 5For us He prayed; for us He taught;For us His daily works He wrought;By words and signs and actions thusStill seeking not Himself, but us.
- 6For us to wicked men betrayed,Scourged, mocked, in crown of thorns arrayed,For us He bore the cross's death,For us at length gave up His breath.
- 7For us He rose from death again;For us He went on high to reign;For us He sent His Spirit here,To guide, to strengthen, and to cheer.
- 8All honor, laud, and glory be,O Jesus, virgin-born to Thee!All glory, as is ever meetTo Father and to Paraclete.
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In the hymnals
- Written in 1871, the words are in 151 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Deo Gracias, is in 127 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. 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.