Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America ‎#546

546. 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 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
• Translator: John Mason Neale, 1818 - 66
• Author: St. Joseph the Hymnographer, d. 883
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1958
• Topic: The Life In Christ: Service
• Notes: This hymn may also be sung to ST. KEVIN (No. 106)

Tune Information

• Name: WEIMAR
• Composer: Melchior Vulpius, 1560 - 1615
• Meter: 7 6, 7 6. D.
• Key: F Major