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Gloriosi Salvatoris

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“Gloriosi Salvatoris” as printed in Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences (1867).

Traditional: Collected Lyrics Text 303 1867 · historical text
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This text comes from Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences, edited by John Mason Neale, a historical songbook transcribed on Wikisource and reproduced from the pinned revision linked below.

Verse 1

To the Name that brings Salvation

Honour, worship, laud we pay:

That for many a generation

Hid in God's foreknowledge lay;

But to every tongue and nation

Holy Church proclaims to-day.

Verse 2

Name of gladness, Name of pleasure,

By the tongue ineffable,

Name of sweetness passing measure,

To the ear delectable,

'Tis our safeguard and our treasure

'Tis our help 'gainst sin and hell.

Verse 3

'Tis the Name for adoration,

'Tis the Name of victory;

'Tis the Name for meditation

In the vale of misery:

'Tis the Name for veneration

By the Citizens on high.

Verse 4

'Tis the Name that whoso preaches

Finds it music in his ear:

'Tis the Name that whoso teaches

Finds more sweet than honey's cheer:

Who its perfect wisdom reaches

Makes his ghostly vision clear.

Verse 5

'Tis the Name by right exalted

Over every other Name:

That when we are sore assaulted

Puts our enemies to shame:

Strength to them that else had halted,

Eyes to blind, and feet to lame.

Verse 6

Jesu, we Thy Name adoring

Long to see Thee as Thou art:

Of Thy clemency imploring

So to write it in our heart,

That, hereafter, upward soaring,

We with Angels may have part. Amen.

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Traditional words. Historical text published in Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences (1867); public domain. No claim to a modern recording or arrangement.

Source & text edition

Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences (1867), edited by John Mason Neale, “Gloriosi Salvatoris”

The 1867 published edition is in the public domain in the United States (pre-1931 publication). Entries whose credited author or translator died more than 70 years ago are also in the public domain in life-plus-70 jurisdictions; other entries are held.

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