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Text: | Let Our Choir New Anthems Raise |
Author: | Joseph the Hymnographer, ca. 800-883 |
Translator and Arranger: | John Mason Neale |
Tune: | ST. KEVIN |
Composer: | Arthur S. Sullivan |
1 Let our choir new anthems raise,
wake the morn with gladness;
God himself to joy and praise
turns the martyrs' sadness:
bright the day that won their crown,
opened heav'ns bright portal,
as they laid the mortal down
and put on th'immortal.
2 Never flinched they from the flame,
from the torture never;
vain the foeman's sharpest aim,
Satan's best endeavor;
for by faith they saw the land
decked in all its glory,
where triumphant now they stand
with the victor's story.
3 Faith they had that knew not shame,
love that could not languish;
and eternal hope o'ercame
momentary anguish.
Up and follow, Christian men!
Press through toil and sorrow;
spurn the night of fear and then,
O the glorious morrow!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Let our choir new anthems raise |
Title: | Let Our Choir New Anthems Raise |
Author: | Joseph the Hymnographer, ca. 800-883 |
Translator and Arranger: | John Mason Neale (1862; alt.) |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6.D. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1990 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Christians: Triumph of; Crown of Life; Resurrection and Everlasting Life(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. KEVIN |
Composer: | Arthur S. Sullivan (1872) |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6.D. |
Key: | F Major |