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187. O Sacred Head, Now Wounded

Text Information
First Line: O sacred Head, now wounded
Title: O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
Author (attributed to): Bernard of Clairvaux (12th century)
German paraphraser: Paul Gerhardt (1656)
Translator: James W. Alexander (1830)
Meter: 76.76D
Language: English
Publication Date: 1998
Source: Medieval Latin
Tune Information
Name: PASSION CHORALE
Composer: Hans Leo Hassler (1601)
Harmonizer: J. S. Bach (1729)
Meter: 76.76D
Key: C Major


Text Information:

The most famous and well loved of the hymns of Pietist Paul Gerhardt. Alexander's translation first appeared in 1830 in Congregationalist Joshua Leavitts' The Christian Lyre


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