3536 | The Cyber Hymnal#3537 | 3538 |
Text: | King of the City Splendid |
Author: | George T. Coster |
Tune: | CITY OF LIGHT |
Composer: | Arthur Vennell Coster, 1864-1931 |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. King of the City Splendid,
Eternal in the height,
May all our country’s cities
Grow holy in Thy sight;
Cleansed from the deeds of darkness—
Cities of light.
2. Teach love to gladden children
That know not childhood’s mirth,
Wronged of their rights—no beauty
In their scant reach of earth;
To hope’s large sunshine give them
A second birth.
3. Give joy to all the joyless,
Song’s voice to sorrows dumb,
May light invade with blessing
Each dark and deathly slum;
Into earth’s realms of horror
Thy Kingdom come!
4. Soon may our country’s cities
Thy robe of glory wear;
Each place of toil a temple,
Each house a home of prayer;
Each city’s name of beauty—
The Lord is there!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | King of the City Splendid |
Title: | King of the City Splendid |
Author: | George T. Coster (1897) |
Meter: | 76.76.74 |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Written at Bedford Park, London, August 18, 1897, and published in the Congregationalist weekly The Independent, January 27, 1898. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | CITY OF LIGHT |
Composer: | Arthur Vennell Coster, 1864-1931 |
Meter: | 76.76.74 |
Incipit: | 53512 33354 14335 |
Key: | A♭ Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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Adobe Acrobat image: | Adobe Acrobat image (Cyber Hymnal) |
MIDI file: | MIDI File (Cyber Hymnal) |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer score (Cyber Hymnal) |
XML score: | XML score |