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Text:Hail thee, Festival Day (Easter version)
Author:Venantius Fortunatus, 530-609
Tune:SALVE FESTA DIES
Composer:Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958

257. Hail thee, Festival Day (Easter version)

Text Information
First Line: Lo, the fair beauty of earth (New English Hymnal)
Title: Hail thee, Festival Day (Easter version)
Author: Venantius Fortunatus, 530-609
Meter: Irregular and Refrain
Language: English
Publication Date: 2000
Scripture: ; ; ; ; ;
Topic: Easter
Source: The editors of "The New English Hymnal" based on the Latin of Fortunatus
Copyright: © Hymns Ancient & Modern
Tune Information
Name: SALVE FESTA DIES
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958
Meter: Irregular and Refrain
Key: F Major
Copyright: © Oxford University Press. Used by permission from the "English Hymnal"



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