Christ — Sufferings and Death

'Tis finished! so the Saviour cried

"'Tis finished!" so the Saviour cried,

No. 316
Metre L. M.
Tune OLDEN.
Words Samuel Stennett.
Music Lowell Mason.
Key A-flat major
Singing key A♭ major
Time 2/2
4 stanzas

Words

"'Tis finished!" so the Saviour cried,And meekly bowed his head, and died:'Tis finished! yes, the race is run;The battle fought; the victory won.

'T is finished! that which heaven foretoldBy prophets in the days of old;And truths are opened to our viewThat kings and prophets never knew.

'T is finished! Son of God, thy powerHath triumphed in this awful hour;And yet our eyes with sorrow seeThat life to us was death to thee.

'T is finished! let the joyful soundBe heard through all the nations round;'T is finished! let the triumph rise,And swell the chorus of the skies!

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «CHRIST—SUFFERINGS AND DEATH.»; hymn number «316» (large), tune name «OLDEN. L. M.» centred over the music (condensed capitals and small capitals; the stops are this face's square stops, read as commas by the page OCR), «LOWELL MASON.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, one line per system, with «1.» before the opening quotation marks: the words of Christ are in double quotes («"'Tis fin-ished!"»), the second «'Tis» of the stanza is not; «fin-ished», «bat-tle» with close hyphens, «vic - tory» with a spaced hyphen, «Saviour» and «meekly» set unhyphenated under two notes, «Andmeeklybowedhis» set very tight (see `lyrics_syllables.txt`). Stanzas 2–4 are printed as text in the left column below the music, under the reference line «314, 315, 171.» in italics (= may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 314, 315 or 171), flush (no indentation); «Samuel Stennett.» in italics after stanza 4. The text stanzas are numbered «2», «3», «4» without a period; they are written «2.» … here, like the interlinear «1.». In the text stanzas «'T is» is printed with a space after the apostrophe (kept); in the interlinear stanza «'Tis» is set close (kept). The print sets a thin space before «!» and «;» («finished !», «old ;», «hour ;», «round ;», «skies !», «run ;», «fought ;»); it is closed up here. The printer's curly quotes and apostrophes are written straight. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.