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Hymn: Hosanna to the Prince of light (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Hosanna to the Prince of light

Topic: Christ/His Burial and Resurrection

Writer: <no first name given> Watts

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 185

Page Number: 115, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Hosanna to the Prince of light,

That clothed himself in clay,

Entered the iron gates of death,

And tore the bars away.



Death is no more the king of dread,

Since our Immanuel rose;

He took the tyrant's sting away,

And spoiled our hellish foes.



Raise your devotion, mortal tongues,

To reach his blest abode;

Sweet be the accents of your songs

To our incarnate God.



Bright angels, strike your loudest strings,

Your sweetest voices raise;

Let heaven and all created things

Sound our Immanuel's praise.