Text: | The Day of Resurrection! |
Author: | John of Damascus |
Translator: | John Mason Neale |
Tune: | LANCASHIRE |
Composer: | Henry T. Smart |
1 The day of resurrection!
Earth, tell it out abroad;
the Passover of gladness;
the Passover of God.
From death to life eternal,
from earth unto the sky,
our Christ hath brought us over,
with hymns of victory.
2 Our hearts be pure from evil,
that we may see aright
the Lord in rays eternal
of resurrection light;
and, listening to His accents,
may hear, so calm and plain,
His own "All hail!" and, hearing,
may raise the victor strain.
3 Now let the heavens be joyful!
Let earth the song begin!
The world resound in triumph,
and all that is therein;
let all things seen and unseen
their notes in gladness blend;
for Christ the Lord has risen,
our joy that has no end.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The day of resurrection |
Title: | The Day of Resurrection! |
Author: | John of Damascus (8th cent.) |
Translator: | John Mason Neale (1862) |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6 D |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2010 |
Topic: | God the Son: Eastertide; Christian Year-Eastertide |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | LANCASHIRE |
Composer: | Henry T. Smart (1835) |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6 D |
Key: | C Major |
Notes: | Higher Key, No. 63 |