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 Latin text
1. Tristes erant apostoli
de neces sui Domini
quem poena mortis crudelis
servi damnavunt impii.
2. Sermone blando Angelus
praedixit mulieribus
in Galilaeam Dominus
videntes est quantocius.
3. Illae dum pergunt concitae
apostolis hoc dicere,
videntes eum vivere,
osculant pedes Domini.
4. Quo agnito discipuli
in Galilaeam propere
pergunt videre faciem
desideratam Domini.
5. Esto perenne mentibus
paschale, Iesu, gaudium
et nos renatos gratiae
tuis triumphis aggrega.
6. Gloria tibi, Domine
qui surrexisti a mortuis
cum Patre et Sancto Spiritu
in sempiterna saecula.
Amen.
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Latin text
1. Tristes erant Apostoli
De Christi acerbo funere,
Quem morte crudelissima
Servi necarant impii.
2. Sermone verax Angelus
Mulieribus praedixerat:
Mox ore Christus gaudium
Gregi feret fidelium.
3. Ad anxios Apostolos
Currunt statim dum nuntiae,
Illae micantis obvia
Christi tenent vestigia.
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 English translation
While Christ's disciples, grieving, sad,
Their Master's painful death
deplore,
Whom faithless servants' cruel
hands,
Had bathed in His own crimson
gore;
Quick from the happy realms
above,
An Angel comes on joyful wing,
And to the women tells the joy
That to His flock their Lord will
bring.
As they with eager steps make
haste,
Their joyous message to repeat,
Their Master's glorious form they
see,
And falling clasp His sacred feet.
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