{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/hec/hec60.htm","path":"chr/hec/hec60.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/hec/hec60.htm","text":"Hymns of the Eastern Church, by J.M. Neale, [1884]\nA Cento from the Canon for SS. Timothy and Maura; May 3rd.\nby S. Joseph of the Studium\n\u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f31\u03b5\u03c1\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f00\u03b8\u03bb\u03bf\u03c6\u03cc\u03c1\u03c9\u03bd.\nLet our Choir new anthems raise:\n \u00a0\u00a0Wake the morn with gladness:\n God Himself to joy and praise\n \u00a0\u00a0Turns the Martyrs\u2019 sadness:\n This the day that won their crown,\n \u00a0\u00a0Opened Heav\u2019n's bright portal;\n As they laid the mortal down.\n \u00a0\u00a0And put on th\u2019 immortal.\nNever flinched they from the flame,\n \u00a0\u00a0From the torture, never;\n Vain the foeman's sharpest aim,\n \u00a0\u00a0Satan's best endeavour:\n For by faith they saw the Land\n \u00a0\u00a0Decked in all its glory,\n Where triumphant now they stand\n \u00a0\u00a0With the victor's story.\nFaith they had that knew not shame,\n \u00a0\u00a0Love that could not languish;\n And eternal Hope o\u2019ercame\n \u00a0\u00a0Momentary anguish.\n He Who trod the self-same road,\n \u00a0\u00a0Death and Hell defeated;\n Wherefore these their passions show'd\n \u00a0\u00a0Calvary repeated.\nUp and follow, Christian men!\n \u00a0\u00a0Press through toil and sorrow! p. 203\n Spurn the night of fear, and then,\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0Oh the glorious morrow!\n Who will venture on the strife?\n \u00a0\u00a0Who will first begin it?\n Who will seize the Land of Life?\n \u00a0\u00a0Warriors, up and win it?","title":"Hymns of the Eastern Church: S. Joseph of the Studium: Let Our Choir New Anthems Raise","type":"page"}