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#363 from Evangelical Lutheran Worship
Come, you faithful, raise the strain
Tune
Gaudeamus Pariter 
Metric Index
7 6 7 6 D 
Key & Modality
F Major  
Last uses
No previous uses
 
Poem Words (five verses)
1.
Come, you faithful, raise the strain
of triumphant gladness!
God has brought forth 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.
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 the 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 glad Jerusalem,
who with true affection
welcomes in unwearied strain
Jesus' resurrection!
4.
Neither could the gates of death,
nor the tomb’s dark portal,
nor the watchers, nor the seal,
hold you as a mortal:
but today, among your own,
you appear, bestowing
your deep peace, which evermore
passes human knowing.
5.
Alleluia! now we cry
to our Lord 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.
Hymn References
Author
John of Damascus c. 696-c. 754
Composer
Johann Horn 1490-1547
Original Language
Greek
Publication Date
2006
Topic
Easter
Translator
John Mason Neale 1818-1866 (alt.)
 

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