109b | The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892#110 | 111a |
Text: | Come, ye faithful, raise the strain |
Author: | St. John Damascene |
Translator: | Rev. J. M. Neale |
Tune: | [Come, ye faithful, raise the strain] |
Composer: | Sir Arthur S. Sullivan, Mus. Doc. |
1 Come, ye faithful, raise the strain
Of triumphant gladness;
God hath brought His Israel
Into joy from sadness;
Loosed from Pharaoh's bitter yoke
Jacob's sons and daughters;
Let them with unmoistened foot
Through the Red Sea waters.
2 'Tis the spring of souls to-day;
Christ hath burst His prison,
And from three days' sleep in death
As a sun hath risen;
All the winter of our sins,
Long and dark, is flying
From His Light, to Whom we give
Laud and praise undying.
3 Now the Queen of seasons, bright
With the day of splendor,
With the royal feast of feasts,
Comes its joy to render;
Comes to glad Jerusalem,
Who with true affection
Welcomes in unwearied strains
Jesus' resurrection.
4 Neither might the gates of death,
Nor the tomb's dark portal,
Nor the watchers, nor the seal,
Hold Thee as a mortal:
But to-day amidst Thine own
Thou didst stand, bestowing
That Thy peace which evermore
Passeth human knowing.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Come, ye faithful, raise the strain |
Title: | Come, ye faithful, raise the strain |
Author: | St. John Damascene (750) |
Translator: | Rev. J. M. Neale |
Meter: | 7.6.D. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1892 |
Topic: | Eastertide |
Notes: | Tune name in index: REGINA |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [Come, ye faithful, raise the strain] |
Composer: | Sir Arthur S. Sullivan, Mus. Doc. |
Meter: | 7.6.D. |
Key: | G Major |