Text: | Come, you faithful, raise the strain |
Author: | St. John of Damascus (c. 675-c. 750) |
Translator: | John Mason Neale (1818-1866) |
Tune: | AVE VIRGO VIRGINUM |
1 Come, you faithful, raise the strain
of triumphant gladness;
God has brought his Israel
into joy from sadness;
loosed from Pharaoh's bitter yoke
Jacob's sons and daughters,
led them with unmoistened foot
through the Red Sea waters.
2 'Tis the spring of souls today:
Christ has burst his prison,
and from three days' sleep in death
as a sun has 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 splendour,
with the royal feast of feasts,
comes its joy to render;
comes to glad Christian hearts,
which, with true affection,
welcomes in unwearied strains
Jesus' resurrection.
4 Neither could the gates of death,
nor the grave's dark portal,
nor the watchers, nor the seal,
hold you as a mortal.
Here today amid your own
now you stand, bestowing
your own peace, which evermore
passes human knowing.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Come, you faithful, raise the strain |
Greek Title: | Αϊσωμεν, πάντεζ λαοί |
Author: | St. John of Damascus (c. 675-c. 750) |
Translator: | John Mason Neale (1818-1866) |
Meter: | 76 76 D |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2008 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Christ Risen: Resurrection and Exaltation; Christian Year: Easter |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | AVE VIRGO VIRGINUM |
Meter: | 76 76 D |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | Melody from Johann Horn's Gesangbuch, 1544; harmonised Church Hymnary, Fourth Edition, 2005 |
Copyright: | © Church Hymnary Trust |