Lift up your heads, eternal gates, Ye everlasting doors, give way

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Lift up your heads, eternal gates. F. Pott. [Ascension.] Written in 1861 to the tune “Ein feste Burg," and published in his Hymns fitted to the Book of Common Prayer, 1861.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer with accompanying tunes (3rd ed., rev. and enl.) (1893), p.276