Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: Hosanna to the Prince of light
Topic: Rejoicing
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 127
Page Number: 137, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHosanna to the Prince of light,
That cloth'd himself in clay;
Enter'd the iron gate of death,
And tore the bars away.
Death is no more the king of dread,
Since our Immanuel rose;
He took the Iron sting away,
And spoil'd our hellish foes.
See, how the conqueror mounts aloft!
And to his father flies,
With scars of honor in his flesh,
And triumph in his eyes.
There our exalted Saviour reigns,
And scatters blessings down;
Our Jesus with his Father sits
On the celestial throne.
Raise your devotion, mortal tongues,
To reach his blest abode;
Sweet be the accents of your songs,
To Christ the Son of God.
Bright angels, strike your loudest strings,
Your sweetest voices raise;
Let heav'n, and all created things,
Sound our Immanuel's praise.