Crown Him with ma-ny crowns,
The Lamb up-on His throne.
Hark! How the heaven-ly an-them drowns
All mu-sic but its own.
A-wake, my soul, and sing
Of Him who died for thee,
And hail Him as thy match-less King
Through all e-ter-ni-ty.
Crown Him the Lord of love,
Be-hold His hands and side,
Those wounds, yet vis-i-ble a-bove,
In beau-ty glo-ri-fied.
No an-gel in the sky
Can ful-ly bear that sight,
But down-ward bends His burn-ing eye
At mys-ter-ies so bright.
Crown Him the Lord of peace,
Whose power a scep-ter sways
From pole to pole, that wars may cease,
And all be prayer and praise.
His reign shall know no end,
And round His pier-ced feet
Fair flowers of par-a-dise ex-tend
Their frag-rance ev-er sweet.
Crown Him the Lord of years,
The Po-ten-tate of time,
Cre-a-tor of the rol-ling spheres,
In-ef-fa-bly sub-lime.
All hail, Re-deem-er, hail!
For Thou has died for me;
Thy praise and glo-ry shall not fail
Through-out e-ter-ni-ty.
Crown Him the vir-gin's Son,
The God in-car-nate born,
Whose arm those crim-son tro-phies won
Which now His brow a-dorn;
Fruit of the mys-tic rose,
As of that rose the stem;
The root whence mer-cy ev-er flows,
The Babe of Beth-le-hem.
Crown Him the Son of God,
Be-fore the worlds be-gan,
And ye who tread where He hath trod,
Crown Him the Son of Man;
Who ev-ery grief hath known
That wrings the hu-man breast,
And takes and bears them for His own,
That all in Him may rest.
Crown Him the Lord of life,
Who tri-umphed o'er the grave,
And rose vic-tor-ious in the strife
For those He came to save.
His glo-ries now we sing,
Who died, and rose on high,
Who died e-ter-nal life to bring,
And lives that death may die.
Crown Him the Lord of Heaven,
En-throned in worlds a-bove,
Crown Him the King to Whom is given
The won-drous name of Love.
Crown Him with ma-ny crowns,
As thrones be-fore Him fall;
Crown Him, ye kings, with ma-ny crowns,
For He is King of all.
Crown Him the Lord of lords,
Who ov-er all doth reign,
Who once on earth, the incar-nate Word,
For ran-somed sin-ners slain,
Now lives in realms of light,
Where saints with an-gels sing
Their songs be-fore Him day and night,
Their God, Re-deem-er, King.