When Stephen, full of power and grace (Anonymous)
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(Posted 2024-09-22) CPDL #82080:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2024-09-22). Score information: A4, 1 page, 38 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in The Hymnal 1982, melody with words underlaid.
- (Posted 2024-09-22) CPDL #82079:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2024-09-22). Score information: A4, 1 page, 157 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in The Hymnal 1982, melody with words.
General Information
Title: When Stephen, full of power and grace
Composer: Anonymous
Tune: Salvation
Lyricist: Jan Struthercreate page
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Unison
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 86. 86. D (C.M.D.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: Melody from Kentucky Harmony
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Original text and translations
English text
When Stephen, full of power and grace,
went forth throughout the land,
he bore no shield before his face,
no weapon in his hand;
but only in his heart a flame
and on his lips a sword
wherewith he smote and overcame
the foemen of the Lord.
When Stephen preached against the laws
and by those laws was tried,
he had no friend to plead his cause,
no spokesman at his side;
but only in his heart a flame
and on his eyes a light
wherewith God’s daybreak to proclaim
and rend the veils of night.
When Stephen, young and doomed to die,
fell crushed beneath the stones,
he had no curse nor vengeful cry
for those who broke his bones;
but only in his heart a flame
and on his lips a prayer
that God, in sweet forgiveness’ name,
should understand and spare.
Let me, O Lord, thy cause defend,
a knight without a sword;
no shield I ask, no faithful friend,
no vengeance, no reward;
but only in my heart a flame
and in my soul a dream,
so that the stones of earthly shame
a jeweled crown may seem.