Praise, O Sion, thy salvation (Joseph Barnby)

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• (Posted 2018-12-06)  CPDL #52531:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2018-12-06).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 53 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from the edition on IMSLP. Note values halved.

General Information

Title: Praise, O Sion, thy salvation
Composer: Joseph Barnby
Lyricist: Thomas Aquinas

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 887. 887

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1897 in Hymn Tunes, no. 173, p. 103
Description: The text is a translation of Lauda Sion Salvatorem.

Original text and translations

English text

1  Praise, O Sion, thy salvation, Laud with hymns of exultation Christ, thy King and Shepherd true: Spend thyself, his honour raising, Who surpasseth all thy praising; Never canst thou reach his due. 2  Sing today, the mystery showing Of the living, life-bestowing Bread from heaven before thee set; E'en the same of old provided, Where the Twelve, divinely guided. At the holy Table met.

3  Full and clear ring out thy chanting, Joy nor sweetest grace be wanting To thy heart and soul today; When we gather up the measure Of that Supper and its treasure, Keeping feast in glad array. 4  Lo, the new King's Table gracing, This new Passover of blessing Hath fulfilled the elder rite: Now the new the old effaceth, Truth revealed the shadow chaseth, Day is breaking on the night.

5  What he did at Supper seated, Christ ordained to be repeated, His memorial ne'er to cease: And, his word for guidance taking, Bread and wine we hallow, making Thus our Sacrifice of peace. 6  This the truth to Christians given - Bread becomes his Flesh from heaven. Wine becomes his holy Blood. Doth it pass thy comprehending? Yet by faith, thy sight transcending, Wondrous things are understood.

7  Yea, beneath these signs are hidden Glorious things to sight forbidden: Look not on the outward sign. Wine is poured and Bread is broken, But in either sacred token Christ is here by power divine. 8  Whoso of this Food partaketh, Christ divideth not nor breaketh: He is whole to all that taste. Thousands are, as one, receivers, One, as thousands of believers, Takes the Food that cannot waste.