{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/hec/hec32.htm","path":"chr/hec/hec32.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/hec/hec32.htm","text":"Hymns of the Eastern Church, by J.M. Neale, [1884]\nby S. John Damascene.\nThe four following Odes are the first four of our Saint's Canon for S. Thomas's Sunday, called also Renewal Sunday: with us Low Sunday. The first Stanzas are marked with inverted commas, as being Hirmoi.\n\u1f04\u03c3\u03c9\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd \u03c0\u03ac\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 \u03bb\u03b1\u03bf\u03af.\n\"Come, ye faithful, raise the strain\n \u00a0\u00a0\"Of triumphant gladness\n \"God hath brought His Israel\n \u00a0\u00a0\"Into joy from sadness:\n \"Loosed from Pharaoh's bitter yoke\n \u00a0\u00a0\"Jacob's sons and daughters;\n \"Led them with unmoistened foot\n \u00a0\u00a0\"Through the Red Sea waters.\"\n\u2019Tis the Spring of souls to-day;\n \u00a0\u00a0Christ hath burst His prison;\n And from three days' sleep in death,\n \u00a0\u2014As a sun, hath risen.\n All the winter of our sins,\n \u00a0\u00a0Long and dark, is flying\n From His Light, to Whom we give\n \u00a0\u00a0Laud and praise undying.\nNow the Queen of Seasons, bright\n \u00a0\u00a0With the day of Splendour,\n With the royal Feast of feasts,\n \u00a0\u00a0Comes its joy to render;\n Comes to glad Jerusalem,\n \u00a0\u00a0Who with true affection\n Welcomes, in unwearied strains,\n \u00a0\u00a0Jesu's Resurrection.\nNeither might the gates of death,\n \u00a0\u00a0Nor the tomb's dark portal, p. 120\n Nor the watchers, nor the seal,\n \u00a0\u00a0Hold Thee as a mortal:\n But to-day amidst the Twelve\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou didst stand, bestowing\n That Thy peace, which evermore\n \u00a0\u00a0Passeth human knowing.\nCatavasia. \"\u2019Tis the day of Resurrection.\" (p. 38.)\n[No. 2 in Mr. Sedding's book. A genuine Easter melody.]","title":"Hymns of the Eastern Church: S. John Damascene: S. Thomas's Sunday, Ode I","type":"page"}