Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem!
To sweet new strains attune your theme;
The while we keep, from care releas'd,
With sober joy our Paschal Feast:
When Christ, Who spake the Dragon's doom,
Rose, Victor-Lion, from the Tomb:
That while with living voice He cries,
The dead of other years might rise.
Chorus novae Ierusalem
novam meli dulcedinem
promat colens cum sobriis
paschale festum gaudiis.
Quo Christus, invictus leo,
dracone surgens obruto,
dum voce viva personat,
a morte functos excitat.
novam meli dulcedinem
promat colens cum sobriis
paschale festum gaudiis.
Quo Christus, invictus leo,
dracone surgens obruto,
dum voce viva personat,
a morte functos excitat.
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Chorus novae Ierusalem ("Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem"), sts 1–2. Analecta Hymnica, vol. 1, no. 215, p. 285. Translated by John Mason Neale in Mediæval Hymns and Sequences (London: Joseph Masters, 1867) pp. 48–49. A different translation (elsewhere attributed to Robert Campbell) appears in Introits and Hymns (London: Joseph Masters, 1852) no. 75, pp. 92–93