LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.) with Alleluja
| | Writer(s): | Frederick Pratt-Green
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| Hymns and Songs
| 1969
| 20
| The Hymnal 1982
| 1982
| 452
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MUSIC
| Name: | FROHLOCKT MIT FREUD
| | Meter: | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.) with Alleluja
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Alternate Tunes
| ILFRACOMBE | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.) with Alleluja | John Gardner | | TRURO | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.) | Psalmodia Evangelica |
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| 1. Glorious the day when Christ was born
To wear the crown that caesars scorn.
Whose life and death that love reveal
Which all men need and need to feel.
2. Glorious the day when Christ arose.
The surest Friend of all his foes;
Who for the sake of those he grieves
Transcends the world he never leaves.
3. Glorious the days of gospel grace
When Christ restores the fallen race;
When doubters kneel and waverers stand,
And faith achieves what reason planned.
4. Glorious the day when Christ fulfils
What man rejects yet feebly wills;
When that strong Light puts out the sun
And all is ended, all begun.
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