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Text:The day of resurrection
Author:John of Damascus
Translator:John Mason Neale
Tune:AVE MARIA, KLARER

278. The day of resurrection

Text Information
First Line: The day of resurrection! Earth, tell it out abroad!
Title: The day of resurrection
Author: John of Damascus (c. 750)
Translator: John Mason Neale (1862)
Meter: 7676D
Language: English
Publication Date: 1992
Topic: Resurrection and Ascension
Notes: in the Eastern Church this hymn is sung at midnight on Easter Eve, during the lighting of candles
Tune Information
Name: AVE MARIA, KLARER
Meter: 7676D
Key: A Major
Source: melody in Gesangbuch . . . der Herzoglichen Wirtembergischen katholischen Hofkapelle, 1874; harmony from Appendix to Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1868



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