The Cyber Hymnal ‎#3674

3674. Let Us Now Our Voices Raise

1. Let us now our voices raise,
Wake the day with gladness;
God Himself to joy and praise
Turns our human sadness;
Joy that martyrs won their crown,
Opened heav’ns bright portal,
When they laid the mortal down
For the life immortal.

2. Never flinched they from the flame,
From the torment never;
Vain the tyrant’s sharpest aim,
Vain each fierce endeavor:
For by faith they saw the land
Decked in all its glory,
Where triumphant now they stand
With the victor’s story.

3. Up and follow, Christian men!
Press through toil and sorrow;
Spurn the night of fear, and then,
O the glorious morrow!
Who will venture on the strife;
Who will first begin it?
Who will grasp the land of life?
Warriors, up and win it!

Text Information

• First Line: Let us now our voices raise
• Title: Let Us Now Our Voices Raise
• Greek Title: Των ίερων άθλόφορων
• Author: Joseph the Hymnographer (9th Century)
• Translator (from Greek): John M. Neale (1862, alt.)
• Language: English
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM
• Incipit: 11121 15656 71111
• Key: G Major
• Source: 13th Cen­tury spring car­ol; first pub­lished in the Swedish Pi­ae Can­ti­on­es, 1582
• Copyright: Public Domain