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Text: | Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain |
Author: | John of Damascus, 8th cent. |
Translator: | John Mason Neale |
Tune: | ST. KEVIN |
Composer: | Arthur S. Sullivan |
1 Come, ye faithful, raise the strain
of triumphant gladness;
God hath 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 hath burst his prison,
and from three days' sleep in death,
as a sun hath 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 splendor,
with the royal feast of feasts,
comes its joy to render;
comes to glad Jerusalem,
who with true affection
welcomes in unwearied strains
Jesus' resurrection.
4 Neither might the gates of death,
nor the tomb's dark portal,
nor the watchers, nor the seal
hold thee as a mortal:
but today amidst thine own
thou didst stand, bestowing
thine own peace, which evermore
passeth human knowing.
5 "Alleluia!" now we cry
to our King immortal,
who, triumphant, burst the bars
of the tomb's dark portal;
"Alleluia!" with the Son,
God the Father praising;
"Alleluia!" yet again
to the Spirit raising.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Come, ye faithful, raise the strain |
Title: | Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain |
Author: | John of Damascus, 8th cent. |
Translator: | John Mason Neale (1853, alt.) |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6.D. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2018 |
Scripture: | ; |
Topic: | Christ: As the Light; Christ: Resurrection of; Israel(2 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. KEVIN |
Composer: | Arthur S. Sullivan (1872) |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6.D. |
Key: | F Major or modal |