{ "authors": [ "Matthew Bridges" ], "copyright": "Public Domain", "title": "Crown Him With Many Crowns", "verse_order_list": [], "verses": [ [ "Crown him with many crowns,\nThe Lamb upon His throne;\nHark, how the heavenly anthem drowns\nAll music but its own!\nAwake, my soul, and sing\nOf Him who died for thee,\nAnd hail Him as thy matchless King\nThrough all eternity.\n", "v" ], [ "Crown Him the Lord of life,\nWho triumphed o'er the grave\nAnd rose victorious in the strife\nFor those He came to save:\nHis glories now we sing,\nWho died and rose on high,\nWho died eternal life to bring\nAnd lives that death may die.\n", "v" ], [ "Crown Him the Lord of love;\nBehold His hands and side,\nThose wounds yet visible above\nIn beauty glorified:\nNo angel in the sky\nCan fully bear that sight,\nBut downward bends His burning eye\nAt mysteries so bright.\n", "v" ], [ "Crown Him the Lord of peace,\nWhose power a sceptre sways\nFrom pole to pole, that wars may cease,\nAnd all be prayer and praise:\nHis reign shall know no end,\nAnd round His piercèd feet\nFair flowers of paradise extend\nTheir fragrance ever sweet.\n", "v" ], [ "Crown Him the Lord of years,\nThe Potentate of time,\nCreator of the rolling spheres,\nIneffably sublime!\nAll hail, Redeemer, hail!\nFor Thou hast died for me;\nThy praise shall never, never fail\nThroughout eternity.\n", "v" ] ] }