What thanks and praise to thee we owe (Anonymous)
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- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2022-03-15). Score information: A4, 1 page, 47 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn with harmony and underlaid words in the version published in The Hymnal 1982.
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2022-03-15). Score information: A4, 1 page, 109 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in The Hymnal 1982, melody with words.
General Information
Title: What thanks and praise to thee we owe
Composer: Anonymous
Tune: Deus Tuorum Militum (Grenoble)
Lyricist: William Dalrymple Maclagancreate page
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard
First published:
Description: Melody from Grenoble Antiphoner, 1753, harmony after Basil Harwood
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Original text and translations
English text
What thanks and praise to thee we owe,
eternal God and Word divine,
for Luke, thy saint, through whom we know
so many gracious words of thine.
O happy saint! his sacred page,
so rich in words of truth and love,
pours on the Church from age to age
the healing unction from above.
Historian of the Savior’s life,
the great apostle’s chosen friend,
through weary years of toil and strife
was still found faithful to the end.
So grant us, Lord, like him to live,
beloved on earth, approved by thee,
till thou at last the summons give,
and we, with him, thy face shall see.