Crown Him with Many Crowns

The full twelve verses of the song (which has two, six-verse versions, sharing the same melody and theme but different wording and theological points of interest) are as follows (the first six stanzas are those written by Bridges; the second six, written by Thring): Crown him with many crowns, The Lamb upon his throne; Hark!

how the heavenly anthem drowns All music but its own: Awake, my soul, and sing Of him who died for thee, And hail him as thy matchless king Through all eternity.

Behold his hands and side,-- Rich wounds, yet visible above, In beauty glorified: No angel in the sky Can fully bear that sight, But downward bends his burning eye At mysteries so bright!

Crown him the Lord of light, Who o'er a darkened world In robes of glory infinite His fiery flag unfurled.

And bore it raised on high, In heaven--in earth--beneath, To all the sign of victory O'er Satan, sin, and death.

Crown him of lords the Lord, Who over all doth reign Who once on earth, the incarnate Word, For ransomed sinners slain, Now lives in realms of light, Where saints with angels sing Their songs before him day and night, Their God, Redeemer, king.