Come, with high and holy gladness (Hugh Blair)

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  • (Posted 2021-01-01)  CPDL #62164:         
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2021-01-01).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 225 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: Come, with high and holy gladness
Composer: Hugh Blair
Lyricist: Cecil Frances Alexander

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, with T or S solo.
Genre: SacredAnthem for Easter

Language: English
Instruments: Organ

First published: 1908 Novello's Octavo Anthems no.922
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Original text and translations

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1  Come, with high and holy gladness,
Chant our Lord's triumphant lay;
Not one touch of twilight sadness
dims yon glorious morning ray,
Breaking o'er the purple east:
Brighter far our Easter feast.

2  He is risen, he is risen;
He hath opened heaven's gate:
We are free from sin's dark prison,
Risen to a holier state.
Soon a brighter Easter beam
On our longing eyes shall stream.

3  Come, ye sad and fearful-hearted,
With glad smile and radiant brow;
Lent's long shadows have departed,
All His woes are over now,
And the Passion that He bore:
Sin and pain can vex no more.

4  Triune God, let all adore Thee,
Saints on earth and saints in heaven;
Ev'ry creature bow before Thee,
Who hast all their being giv'n;
Who by grace dost us restore
Praise to Thee for evermore.