Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain Lyrics

Come, you faithful, raise the strain

Of triumphant gladness

God has brought forth 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

Tis the spring of souls today

Christ has burst his prison

And from three days' sleep in death

As a sun has risen

All the winter of our sins

Long and dark, is flying

From the Light to whom we give

Laud and praise undying

Now the queen of seasons, bright

With the day of splendor

With the royal feast of feasts

Comes its joy to render

Comes to glad Jerusalem

Who with true affection

Welcomes in unwearied strain

Jesus' resurrection

Neither could the gates of death

Nor the tomb's dark portal

Nor the watchers, nor the seal

Hold you as a mortal

But today, among your own

You appear, bestowing

Your deep peace, which evermore

Passes human knowing

Alleluia! now we cry

To our Lord immortal

Who triumphant burst the bars

Of the tomb's dark portal

Alleluia! with the Son

God the Father praising

Alleluia! yet again

To the Spirit raising