GREENSLEEVES

Stanza Arc

The narrative or theological arc traced by this tune's stanzas: Incarnational mystery (Stanza 1) → Soteriological purpose (Stanza 2) → Eschatological response (Stanza 3)

Associated Hymn Texts (4)

• What Child Is This — William Chatterton Dix (1865)
• What feast of love is offered here
• Come Risen Lord and Deign to Be Our Guest — George Herbert (1633)
• Round the Lord in Glory Seated — John Brownlie (1907)

Notes on the Tune

From Hymn Desk's analyses of the hymns sung to it.

LSB 370, What Child Is This : GREENSLEEVES, an English ballad tune of the 16th century.