Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Easter from King's 2022 is available to download: bit.ly/efk22

'It is a thing most wonderful' from BBC Easter from King's 2022. Easter from King's is broadcast in the UK on BBC Two on 16 April 2022.

The Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Anita Monserrat (soprano soloist)
Directed by Daniel Hyde

Distributed under licence from the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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It is a thing most wonderful,
Almost too wonderful to be,
That God’s own Son should come from heaven,
And die to save a child like me.

And yet I know that it is true:
He chose a poor and humble lot,
And wept, and toiled, and mourned, and died
For love of those who loved him not.

But even could I see him die,
I could but see a little part
Of that great love, which, like a fire,
Is always burning in his heart.

It is most wonderful to know
His love for me, so free and sure;
But ’tis more wonderful to see
My love for him so faint and poor.

And yet I want to love thee, Lord;
O light the flame within my heart,
And I will love thee more and more,
Until I see thee as thou art.