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==General Information== | ==General Information== | ||
{{Title|''It is a thing most wonderful''}} | |||
{{Composer|Christopher Edwin Willing}} | {{Composer|Christopher Edwin Willing}} | ||
'''Tune:''' ''Alstone''<br> | '''Tune:''' ''Alstone''<br> | ||
{{Lyricist|William Walsham How}} | {{Lyricist|William Walsham How}} | ||
{{Voicing|4|SATB}} | {{Voicing|4|SATB}} | ||
{{Genre|Sacred|Hymns}} {{Meter|88. 88 (L.M.)}} | {{Genre|Sacred|Hymns}} {{Meter|88. 88 (L.M.)}} | ||
{{Language|English}} | {{Language|English}} | ||
{{Instruments|A cappella or keyboard}} | {{Instruments|A cappella or keyboard}} | ||
{{Pub|1|}} | {{Pub|1|}} | ||
{{Pub|2|1983|in ''[[Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard]]''|no=70}} | |||
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https://embassysingers.de/scores/hymns.html}} | |||
==Original text and translations== | ==Original text and translations== | ||
{{Text|English| | {{Text|English| | ||
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- (Posted 2021-01-09) CPDL #62321:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-01-09). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 52 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 2021-01-09) CPDL #62320:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-01-09). Score information: A4, 1 page, 80 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard, melody with words.
General Information
Title: It is a thing most wonderful
Composer: Christopher Edwin Willing
Tune: Alstone
Lyricist: William Walsham How
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard
First published:
2nd published: 1983 in Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard, no. 70
Description:
External websites:
Original text and translations
English text
It is a thing most wonderful,
almost too wonderful to be,
that God’s own Son should come from heaven,
and die to save a child like me.
And yet I know that it is true:
he chose a poor and humble lot,
and wept and toiled and mourned and died
for love of those who loved him not.
I cannot tell how he could love
a child so weak and full of sin;
his love must be most wonderful,
if he could die my love to win.
I sometimes think about the Cross,
and shut my eyes, and try to see
the cruel nails and crown of thorns,
and Jesus crucified for me.
But even could I see him die,
I could but see a little part
of that great love which, like a fire,
is always burning in his heart.
It is most wonderful to know
his love for me so free and sure;
but ’tis more wonderful to see
my love for him so faint and poor.
And yet I want to love thee, Lord;
O light the flame within my heart,
and I will love thee more and more,
until I see thee as thou art.