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Come, ye faithful, raise the strain

199

The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal)

Metric Index

76. 76 D

Modality

F Major

15-Pitch Humming Index

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Author

John of Damascus [8th cent.]

Composer

Arthur Seymour Sullivan [1842-1900]

Language

English

Original Language

Greek

Publication Date

1985

Translator

John Mason Neale [1842-1900 (alt.)]

Last Five Uses

• Used on Apr 14, 2024 10:30 as the Sermon Hymn at St. Mark's Episcopal, Honeybrook, PA
• Used on Apr 23, 2023 10:30 as the Gradual Hymn at St. Mark's Episcopal, Honeybrook, PA
• Used on Apr 24, 2022 10:30 as the Entrance Hymn at St. Mark's Episcopal, Honeybrook, PA
• Used on May 14, 2017 10:00 as the Entrance Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA
• Used on Apr 23, 2017 10:00 as the Entrance Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA

Poem Words (Four verses)

Come, ye faithful, raise the strain
of triumphant gladness!
God hath brought his Israel
into joy from sadness:
loosed from Pharaoh's bitter yoke
Jacob's sons and daughters,
led them with unmoistened foot
through the Red Sea waters.

'Tis the spring of souls today:
Christ hath burst his prison,
and from three days' sleep in death
as a sun hath risen;
all the winter of our sins,
long and dark, is flying
from his light, to whom we give
laud and praise undying.

Now the queen of seasons, bright
with the day of splendor,
with the royal feast of feasts,
comes its joy to render;
comes to glad Jerusalem,
who with true affection
welcomes in unwearied strains
Jesus' resurrection.

Neither might the gates of death,
nor the tomb's dark portal,
nor the watchers, nor the seal
hold thee as a mortal:
but today amidst thine own
thou didst stand, bestowing
that thy peace which evermore
passeth human knowing.