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Hymnal Sources

Common Praise (1998) #215
Common Praise (2000) #143
Gospel Hymnal (1950) #53
Hymnbook for Christian Worship (1970) #69
Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Standard (1983) #76
Hymns for the Living Church (1974) #164
Hymns of Faith (1980) #172
Presbyterian Hymnal (PCUSA) (1990) #114
Revised Trinity Hymnal (OPC, PCA) (1990) #265
The Ambassador Hymnal (1994) #100
The English Hymnal (1933) #131
The Hymn Book (1971) #464
The Hymnal (1982) #199
The New English Hymnal (1986) #106
The United Methodist Hymnal (1989) #315

Lyrics

1. Come, ye faithful, raise the strain
of triumphant gladness!
God hath 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 hath 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 feasts,
comes its joy to render;
comes to glad Jerusalem,
who with true affection
welcomes in unwearied strains 
Jesus' resurrection.
4. Neither 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 thine own
thou didst stand, bestowing
that thy peace which evermore
passeth human knowing.

Possible Duplicates

• Come, you faithful, raise the strain by Arthur S. Sullivan (1872)
• Come ye faithful raise the strain by John of Damascus tr/ad by John Mason Neale