Hail thee, festival day (Ascension)

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Refrain:
Hail thee, festival day!
Blest day that art hallowed forever;
day when our God ascends
high in the heavens to reign.

Lo, the fair beauty of earth,
from the death of the winter arising,
every good gift of the year
now with its Master returns.
Refrain:
Hail thee, festival day!
Blest day that art hallowed forever;
day when our God ascends
high in the heavens to reign.

Daily the loveliness grows,
adorned with the glory of blossom;
heaven her gates unbars,
flinging her increase of light.
Refrain:
Hail thee, festival day!
Blest day that art hallowed forever;
day when our God ascends
high in the heavens to reign.

Christ in his triumph ascends,
who hath vanquished the devil's dominion;
gay is the woodland with leaves,
bright are the meadows with flowers.
Refrain:
Hail thee, festival day!
Blest day that art hallowed forever;
day when our God ascends
high in the heavens to reign.

Christ overwhelms the domain
of Hades and rises to heaven;
fitly the light gives him praise--
meadows and ocean and sky.
Refrain:
Hail thee, festival day!
Blest day that art hallowed forever;
day when our God ascends
high in the heavens to reign.

Loosen, O Lord, the enchained,
the spirits imprisoned in darkness;
rescue, recall into life those
who are rushing to death.
Refrain:
Hail thee, festival day!
Blest day that art hallowed forever;
day when our God ascends
high in the heavens to reign.

So shalt thou bear in thine arms
an immaculate people to heaven,
bearing them pure unto God,
pledge of thy victory here.
Refrain:
Hail thee, festival day!
Blest day that art hallowed forever;
day when our God ascends
high in the heavens to reign.

Jesus, the health of the world,
enlighten our minds, thou Redeemer,
Son of the Father supreme,
only-begotten of God! Refrain

Equal art thou, co-eternal,
in fellowship ay with the Father;
in the beginning by thee
all was created and made.
Refrain:
Hail thee, festival day!
Blest day that art hallowed forever;
day when our God ascends
high in the heavens to reign.

And it was thou, blessèd Lord,
who discerning humanity's sorrow,
humbledst thyself for our race,
taking our flesh for thine own.
Refrain:
Hail thee, festival day!
Blest day that art hallowed forever;
day when our God ascends
high in the heavens to reign.


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Meter

Irregular
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Music

Tune Sound files Score
Salve, festa dies 9 Salve, festa dies 9
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Sources

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Hymnals

Hymnal Number Tunes Used
Hymns of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1826 #
Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1861-1874 #
The Year of Praise, 1867 #
The Anglican Hymn Book, 1868 #
The Sarum Hymnal, 1869 #
The Parish Hymnal, 1870 #
The Church Hymnal (US), 1871-1874 #
Church Hymns with Tunes, 1874 #
Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland), 1874 #
Hymns Ancient & Modern, Standard, 1875-1924 #
A Church of England Hymn Book, 1879 #
The Universal Hymn Book, 1885 #
The Mission Hymnal, 1885 #
The Hymnal Companion, 1890 #
The Hymnal Companion, 1890 #
The Church Hymnal, 1892 (Darlington) #
The Church Hymnal, 1892 (Parker) #
The Church Hymnal, 1892 (Hutchins) #
The Church Hymnal, 1892 (Tucker & Rousseau) #
The Church Hymnal, 1892 (Helfenstein) #
The Church Hymnal, 1892 (Messiter) #
The Yattendon Hymnal, 1900 #
The Church Hymnary (Scotland), 1902 #
Church Hymns, New Edition, 1903 #
Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Edition, 1904 #
The English Hymnal, 1906 # 628
The Book of Common Praise (Canada), 1908 #
The Mission Hymnal, 1913 #
The Hymnal 1916 (US) #
Church Hymnal for the Christian Year, 1917 #
Church Hymnal (Ireland), 1919 #
Church Hymnal Revised, 1920 (Hutchins) #
The Oxford Hymn Book, 1925 #
Songs of Praise, 1925 #
Songs of Praise, Enlarged Edition, 1931 #
The Book of Common Praise (Canada), 1938 #
The Hymnal 1940 (US) #
Christian Worship, 1941 #
Hymns Ancient & Modern, Revised, 1950 #
The Mirfield Mission Hymn Book, 1955 #
Church Hymnal (Ireland), 1960 #
Anglican Hymn Book, 1965 #
The Hymn Book 1971 (Canada) #
The Australian Hymn Book, 1977 #
The Hymnal 1982 (US) #
Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Standard, 1983 #
The New English Hymnal, 1985 #
Hymns for Today's Church, 1987 #
Church Family Worship, 1988 #
Hymns Old & New, New Anglican, 1996 #
Common Praise (Canada), 1998 #
Together in Song (Australia), 1999 #
Sing Glory, 1999 #
Complete Mission Praise, 2000 #
Common Praise, 2000 #
Hymns Old & New, Complete Anglican, 2000 #
Church Hymnal (Ireland), 2000 #
The Church Hymnary, Fourth Edition (Scotland), 2005 #
The Book of Hymns, 2006 #
Zion Still Sings, 2007 #


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