1 "WELCOME, happy morning!" age to age shall say: Hell to-day is vanquished; heaven is won to-day. Lo! the Dead is living, God forevermore! Him, their true Creator, all His works adore. 2 Earth with joy confesses, clothing her for spring, 3 Months in due succession, days of lengthening light, 4 Loose the souls long prisoned, bound with Satan's chain; Venantius H. C. Fortunatus (c. 530-609) arr. tr. John Ellerton, 1868 2 And what I say, let each this morn That soon in every place shall dawn 3 Now first to souls who thus awake A new and endless life they take 4 The fears of death and of the grave 5 The way of darkness that He trod Shall reach His Father's home. G. F. P. von Hardenberg, 1802; WALTHAM L. M. J. Baptiste Calkin, 1872 Lift up, lift up your voic es now! The whole wide world rejoic The Lord hath triumphed glo-rious-ly, The Lord shall reign vic-to-rious-ly. Hele A-men. ST. KEVIN 7. 6. 7. 6. D. Arthur Sullivan, 1872 Come ye faithful, raise the strain Of triumphant gladness! God hath brought His Is-ra-el 4 In- to joy from sad-ness, Loosed from Pha-raoh's bitter yoke Jacob's sons and daugh-ters, Led them with un- moist-ened foot Through the Red Sea 1 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. 2 'Tis the spring of souls to-day: Christ hath burst His prison, As a sun hath risen; Long and dark, is flying 3 Now the queen of seasons, bright Comes its joy to render; 4 Neither might the gates of death, John of Damascus (viii C.); tr. John M. Neale, 1859 |