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Stephen Gordon - Come Ye Faithful Raise the Strain

from Resurrect, Vol. 2 by Cardiphonia Music

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Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain
Words by St. John Damascene, translated by J.M. Neale
Music by Stephen Gordon, 2023

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1 Come, you faithful, raise the strain
of triumphant glad–ness!
God has 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 today;
Christ has 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 splendor,
with the royal feast of aright,
comes its joy to render;
Comes to glad Jerusalem
who with true affection
welcome in unwearied strains
Jesus' resurrection!

4 Neither might the gates of earth,
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

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from Resurrect, Vol. 2, released November 8, 2023

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