Fairest Lord Jesus, Lord of all creation

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1 Fairest Lord Jesus, Lord of all creation,
Son of God who from heav'n came down;
thee will I cherish, thee will I honor,
O thou my soul’s delight and crown.

2 Fair are the meadows, fairer still the woodlands,
robed in the colors and bloom of spring.
Jesus is fairer, Jesus is purer;
he makes the saddest heart to sing.

3 Fair is the moonlight, fairer still the sunshine,
fair is the shimm'ring starry sky;
Jesus shines brighter, Jesus shines clearer
than all the heav'nly host on high.

4 All fairest beauty, heavenly and earthly,
wondrously, Jesus, is found in thee;
none can be nearer, fairer, or deare
than thou, my Saviour, art to me.

Source: Rejoice in the Lord #370

Translator: Lilian Stevenson

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CRUSADERS' HYMN (111271)

ST. ELIZABETH appears to be an eighteenth-century tune from the Glaz area of Silesia. It has always been associated with this text. No factual data exists for the legend that this text and tune date back to the twelfth-century crusades, although those apocryphal stories explain one of the names by w…

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