Morn’s Roseate Hues Have Decked the Sky

Morn’s roseate hues have decked the sky;
The Lord has risen with victory:
Let earth be glad, and raise the cry,
Alleluia!

The Prince of Life with death has striv’n,
To cleanse the earth His blood has giv’n;
Has rent the veil, and opened Heav’n:
Alleluia!

And He, the wheat-corn, sown in earth,
Has giv’n a glorious harvest-birth,
Rejoice, and sing with holy mirth:
Alleluia!

And he, dear Lord, that with Thee dies,
And fleshly passions crucifies,
In body, like to Thine, shall rise:
Alleluia!

O grant us then, with Thee to die,
To spurn earth’s fleeting vanity,
And love the things above the sky:
Alleluia!

Oh, praise the Father, and the Son,
Who has for us the triumph won,
And holy Ghost—the Three in One:
Alleluia!

Author: John Mason Neale

Year: 1852

This is a translation by John Mason Neale of the 6th-century Latin hymn "Aurora lucis rutilat". Neale's version first appeared in his 1852 collection Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences. The given English text matches Neale's translation (sometimes titled "The Day Draws On with Golden Light" or similar in other hymnals).