The Latin Hymn-writers and Their Hymns

by Samuel Willoughby Duffield

Let a paschal joy be given,

For our Lord is risen again.

This the day of better vision,

This the day of vast decision,

By the Word of God to men.

This despoiled Egyptian spoilers,

This set free the Hebrew toilers

From the bonds in which they lay,

Where, in iron furnace fastened,

Tyrants all their labor hastened