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<h2>WHY, IMPIOUS HEROD, SHOULDST THOU FEAR</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“My kingdom is not of this world.” John 18:36</h3></p>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_s_e_sedulius_c.html" target="_blank">Caelius Sedulius</a>, <em>circa</em> 450 (<em>Hostis Herodes impie</em>); translated from Latin to English by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_d_e_dearmer_p.html" target="_blank">Percy Dearmer</a> in <em>The English Hymnal</em> (London: Oxford University Press, 1906).
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<p><em>Music:</em> “St. Venantius,” Rouen church melody </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_s_t_stvenant.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>Why, impious Herod, shouldst thou fear<br>
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Because the Christ is come so near?<br>
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He Who doth heavenly kingdoms grant<br>
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Thine earthly realm can never want.</p>
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<p>Lo, sages from the East are gone<br>
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To where the star hath newly shone:<br>
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Led on by light to Light they press,<br>
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And by their gifts their God confess.</p>
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<p>The Lamb of God is manifest<br>
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Again in Jordan’s water blest,<br>
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And He Who sin had never known<br>
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By washing hath our sins undone.</p>
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<p>Yet He that ruleth everything<br>
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Can change the nature of the spring,<br>
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And gives at Cana this for sign—<br>
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The water reddens into wine.</p>
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<p>Then glory, Lord, to Thee we pay<br>
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For thine Epiphany today;<br>
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All glory through eternity<br>
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To Father, Son, and Spirit be.</p>
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