O thou, who at thy Eucharist didst pray (Orlando Gibbons)

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• (Posted 2021-02-17)  CPDL #62988:       

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-02-17).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 48 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: The hymn with four-part harmony and underlaid words in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard

• (Posted 2021-02-17)  CPDL #62987:       

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-02-17).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 104 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard, melody with words.

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Title: O thou, who at thy Eucharist didst pray
Composer: Orlando Gibbons
Tune: Song 1
Lyricist: William Harry Turton^{create page}

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 10 10. 10 10. 10 10

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard

First published:
    2nd published: 1983 in Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard, no. 265
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English text

O thou, who at thy Eucharist didst pray
that all thy Church might be for ever one,
grant us at every Eucharist to say
with longing heart and soul, ‘Thy will be done:’
O may we all one bread, one body be,
through this blest sacrament of unity.

For all thy Church, O Lord, we intercede;
make thou our sad divisions soon to cease;
draw us the nearer each to each, we plead,
by drawing all to thee, O Prince of peace:
thus may we all one bread, one body be,
through this blest sacrament of unity.

We pray thee too for wanderers from thy fold;
O bring them back, good Shepherd of the sheep,
back to the faith which saints believed of old,
back to the Church which still that faith doth keep:
soon may we all one bread, one body be,
through this blest sacrament of unity.

So, Lord, at length when sacraments shall cease,
may we be one with all thy Church above,
one with thy saints in one unbroken peace,
one with thy saints in one unbounded love:
more blessèd still, in peace and love to be
one with the Trinity in Unity.