See the Conqueror mounts in triumph

See the Conqueror mounts in triumph. Christopher Wordsworth* (1807-1885). First published in The Holy Year (1862), where it was a long hymn of 10 stanzas in the author’s favoured 15.15.15.15 metre. It was originally intended for both Ascension Day and Pentecost, and was subsequently divided to give two separate hymns, five stanzas for Ascension and four, beginning ‘Holy Ghost, illuminator’ for Pentecost, with a doxology to either part. The hymn was printed in full in the Appendix (1868) to A&M, with the metre changed to 8.7.8.7. Many editors have felt a need to reduce the length, and have omitted the original stanzas 3 and 4, where the references to Old Testament prophets are unlikely...