Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New ‎#132b

132b. Come, ye faithful, raise the strain

1 Come, you 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 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 the 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 easts,
comes it joy to render;
come to glad Jerusalem,
who with true affection
welcomes in unwearied strains
Jesu's resurrection.

4 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

• First Line: Come, ye faithful, raise the strain
• Title: Come, ye faithful, raise the strain
• Author: St John of Damascus, d. c.754
• Translator: John Mason Neale, 1818-1866 (alt.)
• Meter: 76 76 D
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2000
• Scripture:
  Acts 2:24
  ;
  Exodus 14:28
  ;
  John 16:20
  ;
  Psalm 126:6
• Topic: Year A: Easter 2; Year C: Easter 2; Years A, B, and C: Easter Vigil; Baptism; Easter

Tune Information

• Name: AVE VIRGO VIRGINUM
• Meter: 76 76 D
• Key: F Major
• Source: Traditional melody as set in Johannes Leisentritt's "Catholicum Hymnologium Germanicum", Cologne (1584)