Text:Lift Up Your Heads, O Mighty Gates
Author:Georg Wiessel
Translator:Catherine Winkworth
Tune:TRURO

454. Lift Up Your Heads, O Mighty Gates

1 Lift up your heads, O mighty gates;
Behold, the King of glory waits;
The King of kings is drawing near;
The Savior of the world is here!

2 O blest the land, the city blest,
Where Christ the ruler is confessed!
O happy hearts and happy homes
To whom this King in triumph comes!

3 Fling wide the portals of your heart;
Make it a temple set apart
From selfish use for heaven's employ,
Adorned with prayer, and love, and joy.

4 Redeemer, come! we open wide
Our hearts to you; here, Lord, abide.
Let us your inner presence feel;
Your grace and love in us reveal.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: Lift up your heads, O mighty gates
Title: Lift Up Your Heads, O Mighty Gates
Translator: Catherine Winkworth (1855, alt.)
Author: Georg Wiessel (1642)
Meter: L.M.
Publication Date: 1972
Scripture:
Topic: Christian Year: Advent; Christian Year: Palm Sunday
Tune Information
Name: TRURO
Meter: L.M.
Key: C Major
Source: Psalmodia Evangelica, 1789



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