My Song Is Love Unknown : Wells Cathedral Choir

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Uploaded by on Oct 19, 2009

The choir of Wells Cathedral sing another favourite hymn of mine, My Song Is Love Unknown with Samuel Crossman's wonderful words to a beautiful setting by John Ireland. Pictures of stained glass windows from the internet.

My song is love unknown,
My Saviours love to me;
Love to the loveless shown,
That they might lovely be.
O who am I, that for my sake
My Lord should take frail flesh and die?


He came from His blest throne
Salvation to bestow;
But men made strange, and none
The longed-for Christ would know:
But O! my Friend, my Friend indeed,
Who at my need His life did spend.


Sometimes they strew His way,
And His sweet praises sing;
Resounding all the day
Hosannas to their King:
Then Crucify! is all their breath,
And for His death they thirst and cry.


They rise and needs will have
My dear Lord made away;
A murderer they save,
The Prince of life they slay,
Yet cheerful He to suffering goes,
That He His foes from thence might free.


Here might I stay and sing,
No story so divine;
Never was love, dear King!
Never was grief like Thine.
This is my Friend, in Whose sweet praise
I all my days could gladly spend.

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  • Magnificent performance of Wells Cathedral choir! Thanks

  • magnificent performance

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  • To me, the beauty of this sacred music is timeless, and can be appreciated by all generations.

  • A fantastic recording from Wells, I would say on par with the recording from King's!

  • Ireland did a superb job setting this splendid text.

  • This great music will live on long after the Cof E has destroyed itself with limp praise bands and plasma screens.

  • The greatest Cathedral Choir in the world.

  • Was certainly well worth the short journey from the M5 to see this beautiful Cathedral.Choral music as it should be sang and Wells tend to do it better.

  • beautiful hymn, choir, staine glass and organ love organs

  • beautiful staine glass , choir and organ love organs very much.

  • BEUITFUL hymnal, I'm RC so and I'm part Irish and Italian, god bless and take care.

  • @3NUNS That's alright, it was my mistake, though I must say this is a very beautiful hymn and its content very sacred.

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