Text:The Fast, as Taught by Holy Lore
Author:Anonymous
Translator (from Latin):John M. Neale
Tune:JESU CORONA
Composer:Anonymous
Media:MIDI file

1648. The Fast, as Taught by Holy Lore

1. The fast, as taught by holy lore,
We keep in solemn course once more;
The fast to all men known, and bound
In forty days of yearly round.

2. The law and seers that were of old
In divers ways this Lent foretold
Which Christ, all seasons’ king and guide,
In after ages sanctified.

3. More sparing therefore let us make
The words we speak, the food we take,
Our sleep and mirth, and closer barred
Be every sense in holy guard.

4. In prayer together let us fall,
And cry for mercy, one and all,
And weep before the Judge’s feet,
And His avenging wrath entreat.

5. Thy grace have we offended sore,
By sins, O God, which we deplore;
But pour upon us from on high,
O pardoning One, Thy clemency.

6. Remember Thou, though frail we be,
That yet Thine handiwork are we;
Nor let the honor of Thy name
Be by another put to shame.

7. Forgive the sin that we have wrought;
Increase the good that we have sought;
That we at length, our wanderings o’er,
May please Thee here and evermore.

8. We pray Thee, holy Trinity,
One God, unchanging Unity,
That we from this our abstinence
May reap the fruits of penitence.

Text Information
First Line: The fast, as taught by holy lore
Title: The Fast, as Taught by Holy Lore
Latin Title: Ex more docti mystico
Author: Anonymous (11th Century)
Translator (from Latin): John M. Neale
Meter: LM
Language: English
Source: The Hymnal Noted, 1854
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: This hymn is found in two 11th Century manuscripts in the British Museum, and in Latin Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church, printed from an 11th Century manuscript by the Surtees Society (Durham, England: 1851).
Tune Information
Name: JESU CORONA
Composer: Anonymous
Meter: LM
Incipit: 11254 37755 71217
Key: d minor
Source: Rouen church melody
Copyright: Public Domain



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