For all the saints

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For all the saints,
who from their labors rest,
who thee by faith before the world confessed,
thy Name, O Jesus,
be for ever blessed.
Alleluia, alleluia.

Thou wast their rock,
their fortress, and their might:
thou, Lord, their captain in the well-fought fight;
thou, in the darkness drear, the one true Light.
Alleluia, alleluia.

O may thy soldiers,
faithful, true, and bold,
fight as the saints who nobly fought of old,
and win, with them, the victor's crown of gold.
Alleluia, alleluia.

O blest communion, fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle,
they in glory shine;
yet all are one in thee, for all are thine.
Alleluia, alleluia.

Words: William Walsham How (19thC)
Music: Sine Nomine, Ralph Vaughn Williams(20thC)
Sequence: Dall Forsthye, Church of St. John the Evangelist