Text:What Grace, O Lord, and Beauty Shone
Author:Edward Denny
Tune:THIS ENDRIS NYGHT
Arranger:R. Vaughan Williams

180. What Grace, O Lord, and Beauty Shone

1 What grace, O Lord, and beauty shone
Around Thy steps below!
What patient love was seen in all
Thy life and death of woe!

2 For, ever on Thy burdened heart
A weight of sorrow hung;
Yet no ungentle, murmuring word
Escaped Thy silent tongue.

3 Thy foes might hate, despise, revile,
Thy friends unfaithful prove;
Unwearied in forgiveness still,
Thy heart could only love.

4 O give us hearts to love like Thee!
Like Thee, O Lord, to grieve
Far more for others' sins than all
The wrongs that we receive.

5 One with Thyself, may every eye
In us, Thy brethren, see
The gentleness and grace that spring
From union, Lord, with Thee.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: What grace, O Lord, and beauty shone
Title: What Grace, O Lord, and Beauty Shone
Author: Edward Denny (1839)
Meter: C. M.
Publication Date: 1955
Scripture:
Topic: Christ: Life; Christ: Ministry; Christ: Beauty (4 more...)
Tune Information
Name: THIS ENDRIS NYGHT
Arranger: R. Vaughan Williams (1906)
Meter: C. M.
Key: D Major
Source: English carol, 15th century
Copyright: Music from The Oxford Book of Carols. Used by permission of Oxford University Press.



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