(“Holiness To the Lord”)
A song from the year 1876.
Words and music by Bro. John Mahon.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- See our standard proudly rise
It waves o’er legions brave and true
It soars in beauty to the skies
And rivals their cerulean hue
On its blue page a golden scroll
By fair hands wrought records “The Word”
Our watch-word heard from pole to pole
“Holiness, Holiness to the Lord”
Our watch-word heard from pole to pole
“Holiness, Holiness to the Lord”
Chorus
Brothers, brothers shout the glorious strain
Let it rise with one accord
And still repeat the glad refrain
“Holiness, Holiness to the Lord”
- Hail proud standard of the free
“Of the accepted Brotherhood”
Who dwell in peace, and harmony
And who delight in doing good
Beneath thy folds hearts fill’d with love
And Faith and Hope with sweet accord
Shall raise the strain to Heav’n above
“Holiness, Holiness to the Lord”
Shall raise the strain to Heav’n above
“Holiness, Holiness to the Lord” - Let the glorious words go forth
To ev’ry country soil and clime
Till East and West and South and North
Shall echo with the strain sublime
And deep in ev’ry masons heart
Engraved as with a flaming sword
Be those blest words of glad import
“Holiness, Holiness to the Lord”
Be this engraved on ev’ry heart
“Holiness, Holiness to the Lord”
Sung here by Vancha March: