Alleluia, song of sweetness

1.

Alleluia, song of sweetness

Voice of joy that cannot die;

Alleluia if the anthem

Ever dear to choirs on high

In the house of God abiding

Thus they sing eternally

2.

Alleluia, Church victorious

Thou may’st lift the joyful strain

Alleluia, songs of triumph

Well befit the ransom’d train

Faint and feeble are our praises

While in exile we remain

3.

Alleluia, may not always

Be our song while here below;

Alleluia, our transgression

Make us for a while forego;

For the solemn time is coming

When our tears for sin must flow

4.

Therefore in our hymns we pray Thee

Grant us, Blessed Trinity;

At the last to keep Thine Easter

In our Home beyond the sky

There to Thee for ever singing

Alleluia joyfully.