Lamb of God Most Holy

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Composer
Robert Pearsall
Difficulty
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Season
Lent Holy Week Communion General
Voicing(s)
SATB
Instruments
Keyboard [organ/piano]
Category
Anthems Communion Anthems
Collections
So, You Have a Cathedral Choir!
Instrumental Only?
No
Description

From early-19th-century English composer and poet Robert de Pearsall. An SATB arrangement of his eight-part "Lay A Garland" with the Lamb of God Most Holy text (Nikolaus Decius). Organ accompaniment. Delicious!  Also available in an arrangement for two-part choir.

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Lyrics

O Lamb of God most holy,
Who upon the Cross did suffer;
Patient, still, and lowly,
Thyself to scorn did offer.
Our sins were taken for us,
Else despair reigned o'er us.
Have mercy on us, O Jesu!