Sons of the Holy One bright with his splendour

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Sons of the Holy One bright with his splendour

Author: Francis Arthur Judd
Tune: LIEBSTER IMMANUEL
Published in 1 hymnal

Piano/Organ
	The Organist's Library, Vol. 50

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1 Sons of the Holy One bright with his splendour,
Wakened to life at creation's new day,
First to uplift in the joy of surrender
Spirits to worship and wills to obey.

2 Armies of Michael, a heavenly wonder,
Crashed to the onset with evil on high,
Till the proud angel, o'ercome by their thunder,
Dropped on his darkening wings from the sky.

3 Stars of the morn, for creation returning
Praise to the wisdom ordaining the whole,
Hushed their glad songs, in amazement discerning
God's very likeness in man's living soul.

4 Sentries of Paradise, knew ye no sorrow,
Guarding the way with a flame of the sword?
Visioned ye not on a glorious morrow
Man by a tree to his Eden restored?

5 Gabriel came with his high salutation,
Burning with ardour and eager in flight.
'Ave Maria!' The dawn of salvation
Rose at its music and banished our night.

6 See, then, my soul, on a stairway all golden
Angels ascending, descending again!
Sion is here, if our eyes were not holden,
Praise would not fail for their service to men.

7 Praise God for Michael, in strife our defender,
Praise him for Raphael, our healer and guide,
Praise him for guardians, watchful and tender,
True to their charges in need at their side.

8 Laud to thee, Father of spirits supernal!
We with the angels adore thee, O Son!
Comforter holy, proceeding, eternal,
In thee be glory to God, Three in One. Amen.

Source: The New English Hymnal #192

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Author: Francis Arthur Judd

Francis Arthur Judd (1878-1939) attended St. Paul's School in London, winning prizes in Latin and Greek; and graduated from Selwyn College, Cambridge in 1904. He was ordained a deacon of the Church of England in 1905 and a priest in 1906, and was appointed curate of St. John, Limehouse. In 1903 Kegan Paul had published his collection of devotional poems, "The Shrine of St. Cuthbert". He later produced a collection of Swedish poems in English translation, "Under the Swedish Colours" (1911) and published another collection of his original poems, "The Monarch of the Fenland", in 1919.In the 1921 Crockford's Clerical Directory, the Rev. Francis Arthur Judd, M.A. was listed as living in Uttar Pradesh, India, where he wrote "The Rose of India" (… Go to person page >

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