Come, Ye Faithful, Raise The Strain
- Words:
- St. John of Damascus
- Music:
- Sir Arthur S. Sullivan
Sheet music
- 1Come, ye faithful, raise the strainOf triumphant gladness!God hath brought His IsraelInto joy from sadness;Loosed from Pharaoh’s bitter yokeJacob’s sons and daughters,Led them with unmoistened footThru the Red Sea waters.
- 2’Tis the spring of souls today;Christ hath burst His prison,And from three days’ sleep in deathAs a sun hath risen;All the winter of our sins,Long and dark, is flyingFrom His light, to whom we giveLaud and praise undying.
- 3Now the queen of seasons, brightWith the day of splendor,With the royal feast of feasts,Comes its joy to render;Comes to glad Jerusalem,Who with true affectionWelcomes in unwearied strainsJesus’ resurrection.
- 4Neither 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 TwelveThou didst stand, bestowingThat Thy peace, which evermorePasseth human knowing.Amen.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1859, the words are in 414 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.