Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour
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Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour, Fist begotten from the dead, Thou alone, our strong defender, Liftest up thy people's head. Alleluia! Jesu, true and living Bread. Here our humblest homage pay we, Here in loving reverence bow; Here for faith's discernment pray we, Lest we fail to know thee now. Alleluia! Thou art here, we ask not how. Though the lowliest form doth veil thee As of old in Bethlehem, Here as there thine angels hail thee, Branch and Flower of Jesse's Stem. Alleluia! We in worship join with them. Pachal Lamb, thine Offering, finished Once for all, when thou wast slain, In its fulness undiminished Shall for evermore remain, Alleluia! Cleansing souls from every stain. Life-imparting heavenly Manna, Stricken Rock with streaming side, Heaven and earth with loud Hosanna Worship thee, the Lamb who died, Alleluia! Risen, ascended, glorified! |
Caeles in throno resplendens, primus Orco genite, cum valore nos defendens plebis elator tuae, Alleluia! vere Panis vivide. Te summisse reverentes genu tibi flectimus, consciam fidem petentes, nobis ut sis agnitus. Alleluia! Hic es: haud refert modus. Ima forma cum tegaris olim ut in Bethlehem, isdem angelis laudaris: Jesse te propaginem Alleluia! nos laudamus itidem. Quod, paschalis, obtulisti, semel, Agne, mortuus, id aeternum praebuisti annis haud obnoxius, Alleluia! cunctis purgans sordibus. Vitam dans, caeleste Manna, Saxum fissum, diffluum, sonat inde et hinc Hosanna Agnum te laudantium, Alleluia! vivum caelo redditum. |