Praise to the holiest in the height (John Bacchus Dykes)

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(Posted 2020-11-14) CPDL #61375:

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2020-11-14). Score information: A4, 1 page, 43 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 2020-11-14) CPDL #61374:

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2020-11-14). Score information: A4, 1 page, 74 kB Copyright: CPDL

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

(Posted 2019-01-14) CPDL #52917:

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2019-01-14). Score information: A4, 1 page, 45 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: As found in the New English Hymnal.

(Posted 2010-08-27) CPDL #22214:

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2010-08-27). Score information: A4, 1 page, 18 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: From the Church Hymnary, 1927.

General Information

Title: Praise to the holiest in the height
Composer: John Bacchus Dykes
Tune: Gerontius
Lyricist: John Henry Newman

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard

First published:
2nd published: 1983 in Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard, no. 117
Description: For descants, see Gerontius (Alan Gray) and Gerontius (Andrew Sims).

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Original text and translations

English text

1. Praise to the Holiest in the height,
And in the depth be praise,
In all His words most wonderful,
Most sure in all His ways.

2. O loving wisdom of our God!
When all was sin and shame,
A second Adam to the fight
And to the rescue came.

3. O wisest love! that flesh and blood,
Which did in Adam fail,
Should strive afresh against the foe,
Should strive, and should prevail.

4. And that a higher gift than grace
Should flesh and blood refine,
God's presence and His very self,
An essence all divine.

5. O generous love! that He who smote
In Man, for man, the foe,
The double agony in Man,
for man should undergo.

6. And in the garden secretly,
And on the Cross on high,
Should teach his brethren, and inspire
To suffer and to die.

7. Praise to the Holiest in the height,
And in the depth be praise,
In all His words most wonderful,
Most sure in all His ways.