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Tune: Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen · none · F

A Great and Mighty Wonder

Words: Germanus of Constantinople (634-734). Translated by John Mason Neale, 1862.

Key
Foriginal
Tempo
100bpm

Shown in the original key. The loop button repeats the tune for every verse; the last phrase serves as the introduction.

Words

  1. 1A great and mighty wonder, a full and holy cure: The virgin bears the Infant with virgin honor pure! Repeat the hymn again: "To God on high be glory And peace on earth to men!"
  2. 2The Word becomes incarnate and yet remains on high, And cherubim sing anthems to shepherds from the sky.
  3. 3While thus they sing your Monarch, those bright angelic bands, Rejoice, ye vales and mountains, ye oceans, clap your hands.
  4. 4Since all He comes to ransom, by all be He adored, The Infant born in Bethl'em, the Savior and the Lord.
  5. 5And idol forms shall perish, and error shall decay, And Christ shall wield His scepter, our Lord and God for aye.