5. YE FAITHFUL Ye faithful, Triumphant, Enter into Bethlehem, Enter, oh enter, with joyful sound, Tidings, glad tidings, Sent from Heaven by Angels, Chorus: Oh come let us adore, Oh come let us adore, Oh come let us adore, And praise ye the Lord. A Virgin, conceived, Bore the world a Saviour; God of Gods and Light of Lights. Hail! Holy Infant, Very God of Very God. - Glen Rock Carolers
Added to the local repertoire, 1848-1865. Words 'Adeste Fidelis' and tune in MS of John Francis Wade, 1711-1786, unattributed. Tune possible French, in Douai MS, c.1740. See New Oxford Book of Carols. This version is a translation first published in Psalms and Hymns, Burnley, 1820, according to Julian's Hymnology and predates the well-known version by Frederick Oakley (1852). |
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