Office Hymns of Eastertide, the Sarum version

Last year, I put up an Office Hymns for Eastertide post, referring to the Lutheran Liturgical Prayer Brotherhood's site - but I realize now that I didn't actually post the hymns prescribed by Hymn melodies for the whole year from the Sarum service-books.

Well, they are, actually, the same as what's at the LLPB site, and the same as what I posted last year, but here's the official word from Hymn melodies, just to be more clear:

On Low Sunday & all Sundays after Easter, & daily
(when the Service is of the Season) until Ascension Day :

1st Evensong Chorus nove Hierusalem ... ... ... 37

Mattins Aurora lucis rutilat ... ... ... 38

Lauds Sermone blando Ángelus ... ... ... 38

2nd Evensong Ad cenam Agni providi ... ... ... Sundays: 39; Ferias: 40

Here are the chant scores:









See last year's post for audio. I have to go to work now, but will check these later to see if they match up, and will probably add to this post.

EDIT, Later: OK, here's the deal with the hymns above. The LLPB tunes are a match with the chant scores above as follows:

• The Sarum 1st Evensong hymn, Chorus nove Hierusalem ("Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem") is sung by the LLPB (mp3 here) to the same tune as prescribed above, #37. Nethymnal (which looks just like Cyberhymnal!) has the words, the J.M. Neale translation:
  

  Ye choirs of new Jerusalem,
  To sweet new strains attune your theme;
  The while we keep, from care released,
  With sober joy our Paschal feast:
  
  When Christ, unconquer’d Lion, first
  The dragon’s chains by rising burst:
  And while with living voice He cries,
  The dead of other ages rise.
  
  Engorged in former years, their prey
  Must death and hell restore today:
  And many a captive soul, set free,
  With Jesus leaves captivity.
  
  Right gloriously He triumphs now,
  Worthy to Whom should all things bow;
  And joining heaven and earth again,
  Links in one commonweal the twain.
  
  And we, as these His deeds we sing,
  His suppliant soldiers, pray our King,
  That in His palace, bright and vast,
  We may keep watch and ward at last.
  
  Long as unending ages run,
  To God the Father, laud be done:
  To God the son, our equal praise,
  And God the Holy Ghost, we raise.
  

  
  
• The Sarum Mattins hymn, Aurora Lucis Rutilat ("The Day Draws on with Golden Light") (mp3 here), is sung at LLPB using tune #39, rather than tune #38. Oremus hymnal has the English words:
  

  The day draws on with golden light,
  glad songs go echoing through the height,
  the broad earth lifts an answering cheer,
  the deep makes moan with wailing fear.
  
  For lo, he comes, the mighty King,
  to take from death his power and sting,
  to trample down his gloomy reign
  and break the weary prisoner's chain.
  
  Enclosed he lay in rocky cell,
  with guard of armèd sentinel;
  but thence returning, strong and free,
  he comes with pomp of jubilee.
  
  The sad apostles mourn him slain,
  nor hope to see their Lord again;
  their Lord, whom rebel thralls defy,
  arraign, accuse and doom to die.
  
  But now they put their grief away,
  the pains of hell are loosed today;
  for by the grave, with flashing eyes,
  "Your Lord is risen," the Angel cries.
  
  Make of all, to thee we pray,
  fulfill in us thy joy today;
  when death assaults, grant, Lord, that we
  may share thy paschal mystery.
  
  To thee, who, dead, again dost live,
  all glory, Lord, thy people give;
  all glory, as is ever meet,
  to Father and to Paraclete.

  
  
• The Sarum Lauds hymn, Sermone blando Ángelus, (one English version of which is "His Cheering Message From the Grave"), is sung by LLPB (mp3 here) to the same tune as the prescribed Sarum melody, #38 above.
  
  You can see the words here, at TPL; this hymn comes from the long version of Aurora Lucis Rutilat, with various verses broken out to form a new hymn.
  
  
• The Sarum hymn for 2nd Evensong is Ad cenam Agni providi ("The Lamb's High Banquet"). The LLPB sings the tune from chant score #40 (mp3 here), listed as the tune for ferias; the other possible tune, for Sundays, is #39 above. Oremus has the words to this one, too, another J.M. Neale translation:
  

  The Lamb's high banquet we await
  in snow-white robes of royal state;
  and now, the Red Sea's channel passed,
  to Christ, our Prince, we sing at last.
  
  Upon the altar of the cross
  his Body hath redeemed our loss;
  and tasting of his roseate Blood,
  our life is hid with him in God.
  
  That paschal eve God's arm was bared;
  the devastating angel spared:
  by strength of hand our hosts went free
  from Pharoah's ruthless tyranny.
  
  Now Christ our Passover is slain,
  the Lamb of God that knows no stain;
  the true oblation offered here,
  our own unleavened Bread sincere.
  
  O thou from whom hell's monarch flies,
  O great, O very Sacrifice,
  thy captive people are set free,
  and endless life restored in thee.
  
  For Christ, arising from the dead,
  from conquered hell victorious sped;
  he thrusts the tyrant down to chains,
  and paradise for man regains.
  
  Maker of all, to thee we pray,
  fulfill in us thy joy today;
  when death assails, grant, Lord, that we
  may share thy paschal victory.
  
  To thee who, dead, again dost live,
  all glory, Lord, thy people give;
  all glory, as is every meet,
  to Father and to Paraclete.

  
  

See last year's post for the provenance of each hymn.