Deus dos Antigos

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Deus dos antigos, cuja forte mão

Author: Daniel C. Roberts (1876); Translator: João Wilson Faustini (1958)
Tune: NATIONAL HYMN
Published in 4 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	For Love of Country

Representative Text

1. Deus dos antigos, cuja forte mão
Rege e sustém os astros na amplidão.
Do cintilante céu inspirador,
Com gratidão cantamos Teu louvor.

2. Já no passado foste nossa luz;
Hoje és farol que à vida nos conduz;
Sê nosso Esteio, Guia e Proteção,
E Tua Palavra, lei e direção.

3. Da guerra e morte ou crime assolador,
Seja o Teu braço nosso defensor;
Nos corações implanta a fé audaz
Para fruirmos Teu amor na paz.

Source: Louvores ao Rei #32

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Author: Daniel C. Roberts

Daniel C. Roberts (b. Bridgehampton, Long Island, NY, 1841; d. Concord, NH, 1907) Educated at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, served in the union army during the Civil War. He was ordained in the Episcopal Church as a priest in 1866 and ministered to several congregations in Vermont and Massachusetts. In 1878 he began a ministry at St. Paul Church in Concord, New Hampshire, that lasted for twenty-three years. Serving for many years president of the New Hampshire State Historical Society, Roberts once wrote, "I remain a country parson, known only within my small world," but his hymn "God of Our Fathers" brought him widespread recognition. Bert Polman… Go to person page >

Translator: João Wilson Faustini

b. 1931, Bariri, São Paulo, Brazil. Presbyterian pastor, choir director, organist, singer, composer, translator, arranger and publisher of largest collection of Sacred Music in the Portuguese language. From 1982 to 1996 - Pastor at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) Newark, NJ, the oldest Brazilian Presbyterian Church in the USA. Retired on December 31, 1996. After Rev. Faustini was a Minister of Music at Second Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth. [Source?] Pseudonym: J. Costa. Go to person page >

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First Line:	Deus dos antigos, cuja forte mão
Title:	Deus dos Antigos
English Title:	God of Our Fathers, Whose Almighty Hand
Author:	Daniel C. Roberts (1876)
Translator:	João Wilson Faustini (1958)
Meter:	10.10.10.10
Language:	Portuguese
Copyright:	Copyright translation 1958 João W. Faustini. Used by permission.