Let Us Now Our Voices Raise
by
St. Joseph the Hymnographer
TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM-Swedish, Piae Cantiones, 15
82
WEIMAR-Melchior Vulpius
Let Us Now Our Voices Raise
1 Let Us now our voices raise,
Wake the day with gladness;
God himself to joy and praise
Turns our human sadness;
Joy that martyrs won their crown,
Opened heaven's bright portal,
When they laid the mortal down
For the life immortal.
2 Never flinched they from the flame,
From the torment never;
Vain the tyrant's sharpest aim,
Vain each fierce endeavor:
For by faith they saw the land
Decked in all its glory,
Where triumphant now they stand
With the victor's story.
3 Up and follow, Christian men!
Press through toil and sorrow;
Spurn the night of fear, and then,
O the glorious morrow!
Who will venture on the strife;.
Who will first begin it?
Who will grasp the land of Life?
Warriors, up and win it!