Arise and hail the sacred day
General information
Arise and hail the happy [sacred] day. [Christmas.] Published anonymously in the Liverpool Liturgy, 1763, p. 155, in 5 stanzas of 6 lines. In 1769 it was given in the Bristol Baptist Collection of Ash & Evans, No. 96, and subsequently in several of the older hymn-books. In modern collections it is sometimes found as "Arise and hail the sacred day", as in Hall and Lasar's Evangelical Hymnal, N. Y., 1880. The chorus, "O then let heaven and earth rejoice", is not in the original. It appeared in some collections early in the present century. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Settings by composers (automated)
- William Billings — Clarimont English SATB
- John Broderip — Arise and hail the sacred day English SATB
- Thomas Clark — Arise and hail the happy day English SATB
- John Massey — Arise and hail the sacred day English SATB
- Joseph Stephenson — Arise and hail the sacred day English SAB
Text and translations
Joseph Stephenson, in The Musical Companion (1771)
English text 1. Arise and hail the sacred day, |
2. If angels, on the sacred morn |
3. Then let us with the angels join |
Elizabeth Scott, in Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the use of Christians (1803)
English text 1. Arise and hail the sacred day, |
3. How wonderful, how vast his love! |
5. O! then let heaven and earth rejoice, |
Thomas Clark, in An Eighth Set of Psalm Tunes (1830)
English text 1. Arise and hail the happy day, |
2. If angels on that happy morn |
5. O then let heav'n and earth rejoice, |