O Jesus, we have tried to make you King (Thurlow Weed)
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CPDL #33646:
- Editor: Thurlow Weed (submitted 2014-12-10). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 24 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: This setting is intended as a choral anthem, preferably a cappella, although a soft organ flute registration may be used.
General Information
Title: O Jesus, we have tried to make you King
Composer: Thurlow Weed
Lyricist: Michael Hudson
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Chorale Meter: 10 10. 10 10. 10 10
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 2014
Description: Proper 29, Year A
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Original text and translations
English text
The original text was in 3 verses of 4 10s. For this arrangement, the second verse was split to create a two-verse chorale with two verses of 6 10s.
1. O Jesus, we have tried to make you King
and hoped for crowns on earth and thrones above,
but you resist triumphalistic dreams
and bring instead a majesty of love.
We wait the day when Christ the King descends
and all saints rise to greet you with a bow.
2. You wait the day saints rise to comprehend
that we may greet and serve you here and now.
Attend neglected ones, the lost, the least;
and poor, you say, approach on bending knee.
In these you find the majesty you seek,
and all you do for them you do for me.