Traditional feat. Choir of King's College, Cambridge & David Willcocks - Traditional / Arr. Willcocks: "Of the father's heart begotten" Lyrics

Lyrics Traditional / Arr. Willcocks: "Of the father's heart begotten" - Traditional feat. Choir of King's College, Cambridge & David Willcocks



Of the Father's heart begotten
Ere the world from chaos rose
He is Alpha from that fountain
All that is and hath been flows
He is Omega of all things
Yet to come the mystic close
Evermore and evermore
By His word was all created
He commanded and 'twas done
Earth and sky and boundless ocean
Universe of three in one
All that sees the moon's soft radiance
All that breathes beneath the sun
Evermore and evermore
He assumed this mortal body
Frail and feeble, doomed to die
That the race from dust created
Might not perish utterly
Which the dreadful law had sentenced
In the depths of hell to lie
Evermore and evermore
O how blest that wondrous birthday
When the maid the curse retrieved
Brought to birth mankind's salvation
By the Holy Ghost conceived
And the Babe, the world's redeemer
In her loving arms received
Evermore and evermore
This is He, whom seer and sybil
Sang in ages long gone by
This is He of old revealed
In the page of prophecy
Lo, He comes, the promised saviour
Let the world His praises cry
Evermore and evermore
Sing, ye heights of Heaven, His praises
Angels and archangels sing
Wheresoe'er ye be, ye faithful
Let your joyous anthems ring
Every tongue His name confessing
Countless voices answering
Evermore and evermore



Writer(s): Anonymous, Piae Cantiones (1582)


Traditional feat. Choir of King's College, Cambridge & David Willcocks - Once in royal David's city
Album Once in royal David's city
date of release
25-11-2005

1 Once in royal David's city (harm. A. H. Mann; descant Willcocks)
2 Adam lay ybounden - 1971 Remastered Version
3 Traditional: The Truth from Above
4 Traditional / Arr. Willcocks: How Far is It to Bethlehem?
5 Trad.: Personent Hodie
6 Terry: Myn Lyking
7 The Angels and the Shepherds - 1971 Remastered Version
8 Traditional / Arr. Willcocks: "Of the father's heart begotten"
9 The Holly and the Ivy - 2004 Remastered Version
10 Traditional: Resonet in laudibus (14th-Century Carol from the "Moosburg Gradual of 1360")
11 Gabriel's Message - 1971 Remastered Version
12 Traditional: The Shepherds' Cradle Song
13 Quem pastores laudavere [unaccomp. version] - 2004 Remastered Version
14 Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing? - 2004 Remastered Version
15 Traditional / Arr. Willcocks: The Infant King
16 Sir Christèmas - 1971 Remastered Version
17 Traditional / Arr. Willcocks: "O Come, O come, Emmanuel"
18 Alleluya, a new work is come on hand - 1976 - Remaster
19 Traditional / Arr. Rutter: Quittez, pasteurs: "Quittez, pasteurs, vos brebis, vos houlettes"
20 Leighton: Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child, Op. 25b, "Coventry Carol"
21 Ravenscroft: Melismata: No. 23, "Remember, O Thou Man"
22 Traditional / Arr. Rutter: Sans Day Carol
23 A Hymn to the Virgin - 1976 Remastered Version
24 O come, all ye faithful (Adeste fideles) - 1976 Remastered Version
25 Cummings & Mendelssohn: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (After Mendelssohn's Gutenberg Cantata, WoO 9, MWV D4)



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