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Sunday 19 November 2017

Arise and render thanks to God - Notker Balbulus

Arise and render thanks to God,
The Lord and King of all,
Who by his power hath made us free
From Satan's baneful thrall.

Arise and render thanks to God,
And ever be our aim
With angels evermore to sing
The glory of his name.

Notker Balbulus (840 - 912) Switzerland
Translated by Daniel Joseph Donahoe
Source: Early Christian hymns, Series II: translations of the verses of the early and middle ages
by Daniel Joseph Donahoe,  Donahoe pub. co, 1911

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