The Hymnal 1982 ‎#237

237. 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 heaven's portal,
when they laid the mortal down
for the life immortal.

2. Never flinched they from the flame,
from the torture 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, Christians all:
press through toil and sorrow;
turn from fear, and heed the call
to a glorious morrow!
Who will venture on the strife;
who will first begin it?
Who will grasp the land of Life?
Christians, up and win it!

Text Information

• First Line: Let us now our voices raise
• Author: Joseph the Hymnographer, 9th cent.
• Translator: John Mason Neale, 1818-1866 (alt.)
• Meter: 76. 76 D
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1985
• Topic: Holy Days and Various Occasions: Martyrs

Tune Information

• Name: GAUDEAMUS PARITER
• Meter: 76. 76 D
• Key: F Major
• Source: Songs of Syon>/i>, 1904 (harm.)