Crown Him With Many Crowns

I’m catching up with songs posted for “Christ the King” that I haven’t seen before.  This one was used at Ryan’s and RS’s parish. As with many of these older hymns, the details and sheet music are all at Hymnary. The text is by Matthew Bridges but some versions at Hymnary replace one of his stanzas with one by Godfrey Thring. Apparently they each wrote six stanzas with Thring “correcting” the popishness of Bridges’s text. The background is here.

 

The tune is one of those hymn tunes that you remember from somewhere, DIADEMATA, by George J. Elvey, and indeed it has many texts set to its stirring music.

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