Give us the wings of faith to rise - Gibbons, Orlando

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⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre → Hymns

♯ Key D major

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range G2 – D5

¶ Language → English

Measures 10

Texture mixed texture

Parts 3

Instruments A cappella or keyboard

Pages 1

CPDL # 69876

Editor Adrian Wall

Posted 2022-07-04

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

Midi_74

G2 – B3

¶Lyrics / Text

Give us the wings of faith to rise within the veil, and see the saints above, how great their joys, how bright their glories be. Once they were mourning here below, their couch was wet with tears; they wrestled hard, as we do now, with sins and doubts and fears. We ask them whence their victory came: they, with united breath, ascribe the conquest to the Lamb, their triumph to his death. They marked the footsteps that he trod, his zeal inspired their breast, and, following their incarnate God, they reached the promised rest. Our glorious Leader claims our praise for his own pattern given; while the great cloud of witnesses show the same path to heaven.