Wonder, Love, and Praise 737
Faithful cross! above all other (Crux fidelis inter omnes)
- Tune
- monrovia
- Author(s)
- Venantius Honorius Fortunatus (540-600?); John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
- Composer(s)
- Randall Giles (b. 1950)
- Meter
- 8.7.8.7.8.7
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1 Faithful cross, above all other: one and only noble tree! None in foliage, none in blossom, none in fruit thy peer may be: sweetest wood and sweetest iron, sweetest weight is hung on thee.
2 Bend thy boughs, O tree of glory! Thy relaxing sinews bend; for awhile the ancient rigor that thy birth bestowed, suspend; and the King of heavenly beauty gently on thine arms extend.
3 Praise and honor to the Father, praise and nonor to the Son, praise and honor to the Spirit, ever Three and ever One: one in might and one in glory while eternal ages run.
1 Crux fidelis inter omnes, arbor una nobilis: Nulla talem silva, profert, fronde, flore, germine; dulce lignum, dulces clavos, dulce pondus sustinet.