Intercessor (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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- Intercessor (hymn tune)
General Information
Title: Intercessor
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymns Meter: (11.10.11.10)
Language: English
Instruments: piano/organ
Published: Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1904
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Original text and translations
English text
- 1.
- O word of pity, for our pardon pleading,
- Breathed in the hour of loneliness and pain;
- O voice, which through the ages interceding,
- Calls us to fellowship with God again.
- 2.
- O word of comfort, through the silence stealing,
- As the dread act of sacrifice began;
- O infinite compassion, still revealing
- The infinite forgiveness won for man.
- 3.
- O word of hope to raise us nearer heaven,
- When courage fails us and when faith is dim;
- The souls for whom Christ prays to Christ are given,
- To find their pardon and their joy in Him.
- 4.
- O Intercessor, who art ever living
- To plead for dying souls that they may live,
- Teach us to know our sin which needs forgiving,
- Teach us to know the love which can forgive.
Lyrics: Ada R. Greenaway, in Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1904