Tune: Richmond
('Fill thou my life, O Lord my God')
John 1 v.19-27 parts
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John witnessed to priests and Levites
Replied to their invites
Of 'Who are you?' 'What shall we say
To enquirers today?'
John said, I am the voice of one
Preparing way of Son
Way of the Lord, making it straight
Enter by narrow gate
They said, If you not Christ, nor be
Elijah, prophet, see
Why do you baptise? John did say
I answer you, here stay
I baptise with water, but there
Be one here, I do share
With you, that you do Him not know
E'en Christ, God's Son, 'tis so
He is before me, ranks higher
Than me, more place preferred
His shoe's latchet I unworthy
To unloose, great He be
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: January 12th, 2021 03:09
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.6.8.6. metre. Going back to Advent - or an early Advent song for this year!
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I hear there are those who believe a vanguard is either a security officer or a modified front n rear bumper set ....
and if my memory serves correctly, there were 501 Levites ........
All joking aside, you are without any doubt Steven, the most prolific scriber of hymn-poems I am likely ever to encounter .......... write on ..
Thanks N.
Well, I checked the exact meaning of 'vanguard', and yep, a security firm came up! Sounds a good word though. lol.
Charles Wesley wrote over 8,000 hymns. Erm, I've one one to two to write, to catch up with him. More like several thousands!
Good one Orchi.
Thanks Gold.
You have a way
To prose a say
Thanks Suresh.
You'd think I'd remember having sung a tune called RICHMOND, but I didn't, at least not till i heard it. I can sing your words to it, though.
Typo, line 3: I suppose you meant 'say'.
Thanks Robert.
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