Praise to the holiest in the height (Thomas Haweis)
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- (Posted 2020-11-14) CPDL #61379:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2020-11-14). Score information: A4, 1 page, 45 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn with four-part harmony and underlaid words to the alternative tune Richmond in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard
- (Posted 2020-11-14) CPDL #61378:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2020-11-14). Score information: A4, 1 page, 78 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn to the alternative tune Richmond in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard, melody with words.
General Information
Title: Praise to the holiest in the height
Composer: Thomas Haweis
Tune: Richmond
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: A descant to the hymn can be found here.
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Original text and translations
English text
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.
O loving wisdom of our God!
when all was sin and shame,
a second Adam to the fight
and to the rescue came.
O wisest love! that flesh and blood,
which did in Adam fail,
should strive afresh against the foe,
should strive and should prevail;
and that a higher gift than grace
should flesh and blood refine,
God’s presence and his very self,
and essence all-divine.
O generous love! that he, who smote
in Man for man the foe,
the double agony in Man
for man should undergo;
and in the garden secretly,
and on the cross on high,
should teach his brethren, and inspire
to suffer and to die.
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.