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Text: | Come, Ye Faithful, Raise The Strain |
Author: | St. John of Damascus, 8th cent. |
Translator: | John M. Neale, 1818-1866 |
Tune: | GAUDEAMUS PARITER |
Arranger: | Randall DeBruyn, b. 1947 |
Composer: | Johann Horn, ca. 1495-1547 |
1 Come, ye faithful, raise the strain
Of triumphant gladness;
God has brought his Israel
Into joy from sadness;
Loosed from Pharoah'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 his light, to whom we give
Laud and praise undying.
3 Now the queen of seasons bright
With the day of splendor,
With the royal feast of feasts
Comes its joy to render;
Comes to gladden faithful hearts
Who with true affection
Welcome in unwearied strains
Jesus' resurrection.
4 Neither could the gates of death,
Nor the tomb's dark portal,
Nor the watchers, nor the seal
Hold him as a mortal;
But today amid the twelve
Christ appeared, bestowing
Lasting peace which evermore
Passes human knowing.
5 "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 | |
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First Line: | Come, ye faithful raise the strain |
Title: | Come, Ye Faithful, Raise The Strain |
Author: | St. John of Damascus, 8th cent. |
Translator: | John M. Neale, 1818-1866 (alt.) |
Meter: | 76 76 D |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2012 |
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Tune Information | |
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Name: | GAUDEAMUS PARITER |
Composer: | Johann Horn, ca. 1495-1547 |
Arranger: | Randall DeBruyn, b. 1947 |
Meter: | 76 76 D |
Key: | F Major or modal |
Copyright: | Arr. © 1990, OCP |