Transfiguration
O Wondrous Type, O Vision Fair
- Words:
- From the "Sarum Breviary", 1495. Translated by John Mason Neale, 1851.
- Music:
- 'Deo Gracias' or 'Agincourt' traditional English, circa 1415.
- Setting:
- Charles Winfred Douglas, 1918, alt.
- Metre:
- 8 8 8 8
- 1O wondrous type! O vision fairOf glory that the Church may share,Which Christ upon the mountain shows,where brighter than the sun He glows!
- 2From age to age the tale declare,How with the three disciples there,Where Moses and Elijah meet,The Lord holds converse high and sweet.
- 3The law and prophets there have place,Two chosen witnesses of grace;The Father's voice from out the cloudproclaims His only Son aloud.
- 4With shining face and bright array,Christ deigns to manifest todayWhat glory shall be theirs abovewho joy in God with perfect love.
- 5And faithful hearts are raised on highby this great vision's mystery;For which in joyful strains we raisethe voice of prayer, the hymn of praise.
- 6O Father, with th'Eternal Son,and Holy Spirit, ever One,Vouchsafe to bring us by Thy graceto see Thy glory face to face.
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In the hymnals
- Written in 1854, the words are in 111 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.