Palm Sunday Hymn: "Hosanna, Loud Hosanna"

As the Bible (King James Version) says:

On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried,
     Hosanna:
     Blessed is the King of Israel
     that cometh in the name of the Lord.
(John 12:12-13)

And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strewed them in the way. And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying,
     Hosanna to the Son of David:
     Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord;
     Hosanna in the highest.
(Matthew 21:8-9)

And many spread their garments in the way; and others cut down branches off the trees, and strewed them in the way. And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying,
     Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
     Blessed be the kingdom of our father David,
     that cometh in the name of the Lord:
     Hosanna in the highest.
(Mark 11:8-10)


HOSANNA, LOUD HOSANNA
by Jeanette Threlfall, 1873

Hosanna, loud hosanna,
   The little children sang;
Through pillared court and temple
   The lovely anthem rang.
To Jesus, who had blessed them
   Close folded to his breast,
The children sang their praises,
   The simplest and the best.

From Olivet they followed
   Mid an exultant crowd,
The victor palm branch waving,
   And chanting clear and loud.
The Lord of earth and heaven
   Rode on in lowly state,
Not scorned that little children
   Should on his bidding wait.

"Hosanna in the highest!"
   That ancient song we sing,
For Christ is our Redeemer,
   The Lord of heaven our King.
O may we ever praise him
   With heart and life and voice,
And in his blissful presence
   Eternally rejoice!