Ho ĝoja son'!

Representative Text

1. Ho ĝoja son'! aŭskultu vi,
Nun venas la Sinjor';
Preparu kanton ĉiu lang',
Kaj tronon ĉiu kor'.

2. Li venas savi al homar'
El jugo de Satan';
Katenojn ferajn rompas li
Per ĉiopova man'.

3. Li venas al la mizerul',
Lin levas el dolor',
Kaj ankaŭ al la humilul'
Li venas kun favor'.

4. Ho Princ' de Paco, gloru ni
Al via kara nom';
"Hosana"! ĝoje sonu nun
De ĉiu danka hom'.

Source: TTT-Himnaro Cigneta #177

Translator: L. I. Gentle

Leonard Ivor Gentle, an Englishman, was for 26 years the organist of the Londona Esperanta Diservo, for many years the best known Esperanto Protestant worship meeting. Four of his works appear in Adoru, and many others are accessible at the archived versions of TTT-Himnaro Cigneta (http://reocities.com/cigneto/thcbio/g/gentle_li.html) Leland Ross Go to person page >

Author: Philip Doddridge

Philip Doddridge (b. London, England, 1702; d. Lisbon, Portugal, 1751) belonged to the Non-conformist Church (not associated with the Church of England). Its members were frequently the focus of discrimination. Offered an education by a rich patron to prepare him for ordination in the Church of England, Doddridge chose instead to remain in the Non-conformist Church. For twenty years he pastored a poor parish in Northampton, where he opened an academy for training Non-conformist ministers and taught most of the subjects himself. Doddridge suffered from tuberculosis, and when Lady Huntington, one of his patrons, offered to finance a trip to Lisbon for his health, he is reputed to have said, "I can as well go to heaven from Lisbon as from Nort… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Ho ĝoja son'! aŭskultu vi
Title: Ho ĝoja son'!
English Title: Hark the glad sound!
Author: Philip Doddridge (1735)
Translator: L. I. Gentle
Language: Esperanto

Tune

RICHMOND (Haweis)

RICHMOND (also known as CHESTERFIELD) is a florid tune originally written by Thomas Haweis (PHH 270) and published in his collection Carmina Christo (1792). Samuel Webbe, Jr., adapted and shortened the tune and published it in his Collection of Psalm Tunes (1808). It was reprinted in 1853 in Webbe's…

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ST. SAVIOUR (Baker 11716)


BRISTOL (55555)


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