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Text:Hail, O festival day
Author:Venantius Honorius Fortunatus, c.540-c.609
Tune:SALVE FESTA DIES
Composer:Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958

244. Hail, O festival day

Text Information
First Line: See how the grace of the world
Title: Hail, O festival day
Author: Venantius Honorius Fortunatus, c.540-c.609
Refrain First Line: Hail, O festival day!
Meter: 7 9 7 7 with refrain
Language: English
Publication Date: 1997
Scripture:
Topic: Ascension; Church Year: Easter; Pentecost (2 more...)
Source: Latin; Vs. 3, 5, 6 and Pentecost from York Processionals 1530; Translation: The New Century Hymnal 1995, alt.
Copyright: Translation © The Pilgrim Press, 1995
Tune Information
Name: SALVE FESTA DIES
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958
Meter: 7 9 7 7 with refrain
Key: e minor or modal
Copyright: © Oxford University Press



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