This is a new one to me.
Adapted from a longer set of traditional words, the tune is arranged by Ralph Vaughn Williams.
The lyrics:
1.
This is the truth sent from above,
The truth of God, the God of love;
Therefore don’t turn me from your door,
But hearken all both rich and poor.
2.
The first thing which I do relate,
Is That God did man create
The next thing which to you I tell,
Woman was made with man to dwell.
3.
Then after this was God’s own choice
To place them both in Paradise,
There to remain from evil free
Except they eat of such a tree.
4.
But they did eat, which was a sin,
And thus their ruin did begin —
Ruin’d themselves, both you and me,
And all of their posterity.
5.
Thus we were as to endless woes,
Till God the Lord did interpose
And so a promise soon did run
That He would redeem us by His Son.
Here’s a rendition by the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge.
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