Opening Songs
We Gather Together
- Words:
- Anonymous circa 1597. Translated Theodore Baker, 1894.
- Music:
- 'Kremser' Traditional Dutch circa 1597.
- Setting:
- Eduard Kremser, 1877.
- Metre:
- 6 6 6 5 6 6 6 5
- 1We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing;He chastens and hastens His will to make known.The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing.Sing praises to His Name;He forgets not His own.
- 2Beside us to guide us,our God with us joining,Ordaining, maintainingHis kingdom divine;So from the beginningthe fight we were winning;Thou, Lord, were at our side,all glory be Thine!
- 3We all do extol Thee,Thou Leader triumphant,And pray that Thou still ourDefender will be.Let Thy congregationescape tribulation;Thy Name be ever praised!O Lord, make us free!
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In the hymnals
- Written in 1625, the words are in 271 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Kremser, is in 420 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.