Christ My Song - 2466
Come, ye faithful, raise the strain (John of Damascus/
John Mason Neale/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
Come, ye faithful, raise the strain.
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. PDF - Midi
2. '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.
3. 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.
4. 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 the twelve
thou didst stand, bestowing
that thy peace, which evermore
passeth human knowing.
John of Damascus, from the Greek translated by John Mason Neale,
in: Philip Schaff: Christ in Song, 1870, 191-192.