Celebrating Grace Hymnal ‎#218

218. Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain

1 Come, ye faithful, raise the strain
of triumphant gladness;
God has brought forth 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 bleak, is flying
from His light, to whom we give
laud and praise undying.

3 Now the brightest season dawns
with the day of splendor,
now the royal feast of feasts
comes its joy to render;
comes to glad Jerusalem,
who with true affection
welcomes in unwearied strains
Jesus' resurrection.

Text Information

• 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 (1859)
• Meter: 7.6.7.6 D
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2010
• Topic: God the Son: Eastertide; Christian Year-Eastertide

Tune Information

• Name: ST. KEVIN
• Composer: Arthur S. Sullivan (1872)
• Meter: 7.6.7.6 D
• Key: F Major