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Text: | O Sons and Daughters, Let Us Sing |
Author (attributed to): | Jean Tisserand, d. 1494 |
Translator (st. 1): | John Mason Neale, 1818-1866 |
Translator (sts. 2-5): | Delores Dufner, OSB, b. 1939 |
Tune: | O FILII ET FILIAE |
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
1 O sons and daughters, let us sing
with heav'nly hosts to Christ our king:
today the grave has lost its sting!
Alleluia!
2 That Easter morn, at break of day,
a faithful woman went her way
to seek the tomb where Jesus lay.
Alleluia!
3 When Mary's heart was filled with gloom
and she stood weeping near the tomb,
a stranger spoke, she knew not whom.
Alleluia!
4 "Why do you weep?" his question came.
"Whose is the body you would claim?"
And then, at last, he spoke her name.
Alleluia!
5 No longer weeping, anguish-bent,
but with rejoicing Mary went,
by Christ as first apostle sent.
Alleluia!
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O sons and daughters, let us sing |
Title: | O Sons and Daughters, Let Us Sing |
Author (attributed to): | Jean Tisserand, d. 1494 |
Translator (st. 1): | John Mason Neale, 1818-1866 (alt.) |
Translator (sts. 2-5): | Delores Dufner, OSB, b. 1939 |
Meter: | 8 8 8 with alleluais |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2006 |
Topic: | Easter |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | O FILII ET FILIAE |
Meter: | 8 8 8 with alleluais |
Key: | g minor |
Source: | French tune, 15th cent. |