Tu esto nostrum gaudium,
Qui es futurus praemium;
Sit nostra in te gloria
Per cuncta semper saecula.
It is usually attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux (See [539]), but many authorities now question the authorship. Percy Dearmer says in Songs of Praise Discussed that “it is not by St. Bernard.... St. Bernard of Clairvaux was born 1091 and the poem itself has been found in a manuscript of the 11th century.” In further commenting on the authorship he says, “We really know nothing and are not likely to know.”
The translation here is by Edward Caswall.
For comments on Caswall see [Hymn 19].
A translation of a different cento of the same hymn, by Ray Palmer, is found at [No. 171].
MUSIC. ST. AGNES was written for this hymn in A Hymnal for Use in the English Church, 1866, edited by Rev. J. Grey. In England it is called “St. Agnes, Durham,” to distinguish it from the tune, “Langran” ([303]) which is known in England as “St. Agnes.”
For comments on the composer, John B. Dykes, see [Hymn 1].