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Salve Fest Dies

Lo, the fair beauty of earth

175

The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal)

Metric Index

79. 77 with Refrain

Modality

F Major

15-Pitch Humming Index

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Author

Venantius Honorius Fortunatus [540?-600?]

Composer

Ralph Vaughan Williams [1872-1958]

By permission of Oxford University Press.
By permission of Oxford University Press.

Language

English

Notes

Public Domain in U.S.
Now Public Domain

Original Language

Latin

Publication Date

1985

Refrain First Line

hail thee, festival day

Source

The English Hymnal [1906]

Last Five Uses

• Used on Apr 19, 2015 10:00 as the Entrance Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA
• Used on Apr 29, 2012 10:00 as the Entrance Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA
• Used on Aug 19, 2007 10:00 as the Entrance Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA

Poem Words (Eight verses)

Lo, the fair beauty of earth,
From the death of the winter arising!
Every good gift of the year
Now with its Master returns: (Refrain)

He who was nailed to the cross
is Lord and the ruler of nature;
all things created on earth
sing to the glory of God: (Refrain)

Daily the loveliness grows,
adorned with glory of blossom;
heaven her gates unbars,
flinging her increase of light: (Refrain)

Rise from the grave now, O Lord,
who art author of life and creation.
Treading the pathway of death,
life thou bestowest on all: (Refrain)

God the Creator, the Lord,
who rulest the earth and the heavens,
guard us from harm without;
cleanse us from evil within: (Refrain)

Jesus the health of the world,
enlighten our minds, thou Redeemer,
Son of the Father supreme,
Only begotten of God: (Refrain)

Spirit of life and of power,
now flow in us, fount of our being,
light that dost enlighten all,
life that in all dost abide: (Refrain)

Praise to the giver of good!
Thou Love who art author of concord,
pour out thy balm on our souls,
order our ways in thy peace: (Refrain)