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Chorus Novæ Jerusalem
This Paschal Hymn, the composition of S. Fulbert of Chartres, is not common in continental Breviaries, but was adopted in our own: where it occurs in the First Vespers of Low Sunday.
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[1] living voice He cries,
The dead of other years might rise.
Engorg'd in former years, their prey
Must Death and Hell restore to-day:
And many a captive soul, set free,
With Jesus leaves captivity.
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