#376: Thine Is the Glory

This is a composer famous for other things--Handel wrote the "Messiah," and several other oratorios, including one about Judas Maccabaeus (led the Maccabean rebellion which is where the Hanukkah story comes from). This melody was taken from that and turned into an Easter song. Since the music is in the public domain, I actually stole it myself to write a text for a hymn contest earlier this year!

Meanwhile on hymns in the wild: I came across a plaque with some of the lyrics from "God of Grace and God of Glory." Only problem is, it merged verse 1 (rhymes "power/flower/hour") with verse 2 ("ways/praise/days"), so it goes power/flower/days! I guess they didn't want to sound like they were limiting their focus to one specific hour, but still, I feel like we could have inferred the more poetic meaning from context.