The Cyber Hymnal ‎#343

343. Another Year Completed

1. Another year completed,
The day comes round once more
Which with our patron’s radiance
Is bright as heretofore.
Now, strong in hope, united
His festival we greet;
He will present our troubles
Before the mercy-seat.

2. The Scriptures tell how Moses
Did for the people pray,
Appeased the Judge eternal,
And turned His wrath away;
Elijah’s prayer had power,
To close and open Heav’n;
Such saints as were aforetime,
Such saints to us are giv’n.

3. O saint of God, belovèd,
And placed on His right hand,
Thy prayers be like a rampart
As ’gainst the foe we stand;
For Abraham’s God is thy God,
And Isaac’s God is thine,
Thine is the God of Jacob,
The Lord of power benign.

4. For forty years His Israel
He fed with angels’ food;
The flinty rock He opened
The streams of water flowed.
Entreat that Christ His people
May lead to victory:
The God of Joshua’s triumph
The Lord thy God is He.

Text Information

• First Line: Another year completed
• Title: Another Year Completed
• Latin Title: Ecce dies nobis anno, revoluta percato
• Author: Paulinus of Nola, 353-431 (401)
• Translator (from Latin): J. Athelstan Riley
• Meter: 76.76 D
• Language: English
• Source: The English Hymnal (London: Oxford University Press, 1906), number 195
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: This is Paulinus' eighth in the series of poems he wrote annually for the festival of Felix of Nola). It was evidently written for January 14, 401, when the Goths under Alaric were devastating Italy; Paulinus, asking for Felix' prayers, hopes for better times.

Tune Information

• Name: WOHLAUF, THUT NICHT VERZAGEN
• Composer: Bartholomäus Helder, 1585-1635
• Meter: 76.76 D
• Incipit: 13321 43565 42355
• Key: G Major
• Copyright: Public Domain