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Text: | The Strife Is O’er |
Translator: | Francis Pott |
Tune: | VICTORY |
Adapter: | William Henry Monk |
Composer: | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina |
Media: | Audio recording |
Refrain:
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
1 The strife is o'er, the battle done;
the victory of life is won;
the song of triumph has begun.
Alleluia!
2 The powers of death have done their worst,
but Christ their legions hath dispersed:
let shouts of holy joy outburst.
Alleluia!
3 The three sad days are quickly sped;
Christ rises glorious from the dead:
all glory to our risen Head!
Alleluia!
4 Lord, by the stripes which wounded thee,
from death’s dread sting thy servants free,
that we may live, and sing to thee:
Alleluia! [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The strife is o'er the battle done |
Title: | The Strife Is O’er |
Translator: | Francis Pott (1861) |
Meter: | 8.8.8 with alleluias |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
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Topic: | Christian Year: Easter Vigil; Christian Year: Resurrection/Easter; Jesus Christ: Resurrection(1 more...) |
Source: | Latin hymn, c. 1695 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | VICTORY |
Composer: | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1591) |
Adapter: | William Henry Monk (1861) |
Meter: | 8.8.8 with alleluias |
Key: | D Major |
The Latin text from which this hymn has been translated may well be older than its earliest printing in a 17th-century collection published in Cologne. It is set to an adaptation of a portion of the Gloria Patri section from a 16th-century choral version of the Magnificat
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Audio recording: | Audio (MP3) |