Come, ye faithful, raise the strain (Jan Roh)
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- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2020-04-29). Score information: A4, 1 page, 50 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Words and melody from Hymns Ancient and Modern New Standard. Verses not underlaid. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: Come, ye faithful, raise the strain
Composer: Jan Roh
Lyricist: St. John of Damascuscreate page (8th century); Trans. John Mason Neale, 1853
Tune: Ave virgo virginum, or Gaudeamus Pariter
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Unison
Genre: Sacred, Hymn
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1544
Description:
External websites: http://embassysingers.de/scores/hymns.html
Original text and translations
English text
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 to-day;
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 splendour,
with the royal feast of feasts,
comes its joy to render;
comes to glad Jerusalem,
who with true affection
welcomes in unwearied strains
Jesu’s resurrection.
Alleluia now we cry
to our King 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.