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<h2>YESTERDAY, WITH EXULTATION</h2>
<p align="center"><h3>&#8220;Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.&#8221; Acts 7:56</h3></p>
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<p><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_n_e_neale_jm.jpg" alt="John Mason Neale (1818-1866)" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="141.333333333333" height="201.333333333333"><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_a_d_adam_stv.html" target="_blank">Adam of St. Victor</a>, 12th Century (<em>Heri mundus exultavit</em>); translated from Latin to English by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_n_e_neale_jm.html" target="_blank">John Mason Neale</a> and the compilers of <em>Hymns Ancient and Modern</em>. The lyrics speak of Stephen&#8217;s martyrdom.
<p><em>Music:</em> &#8220;Heri Mundus Exultavit,&#8221; <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_m_a_c_macfarren_w.html" target="_blank">W. Macfarren</a> </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_h_e_herimund.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>Yesterday, with exultation,<br>
Joined the world in celebration,<br>
Of her promised Savior&#8217;s birth;<br>
Yesterday the angel nation<br>
Poured the strains of jubilation<br>
O&#8217;er the Monarch born on earth.</p>
<p>But today o&#8217;er death victorious,<br>
By his faith and actions glorious,<br>
By his miracles renowned,<br>
See the Deacon triumph gaining,<br>
&#8217;Midst the faithless faith sustaining,<br>
First of holy martyrs found.</p>
<p>Onward, champion, falter never,<br>
Sure of sure reward forever,<br>
Holy Stephen, persevere;<br>
Perjured witnesses confounding,<br>
Satan&#8217;s synagogues astounding<br>
By thy doctrine true and clear.</p>
<p>Thine own Witness is in Heaven,<br>
True and faithful, to thee given,<br>
Witness of thy blamelessness;<br>
By thy name a crown implying,<br>
Meet it is thou shouldst be dying<br>
For the crown of righteousness.</p>
<p>For the crown that fadeth never<br>
Bear the torturer&#8217;s brief endeavor;<br>
Victory waits to end the strife;<br>
Death shall be thy life&#8217;s beginning,<br>
And life&#8217;s losing be the winning<br>
Of the true and better life.</p>
<p>Filled with God&#8217;s most Holy Spirit,<br>
See the Heav&#8217;n thou shalt inherit,<br>
Stephen, gaze into the skies;<br>
There God&#8217;s glory steadfast viewing,<br>
Thence thy victor strength renewing,<br>
Pant for thy eternal prize.</p>
<p>See, as Jewish foes invade thee,<br>
See how Jesus stands to aid thee,<br>
Stands at God&#8217;s right hand on high:<br>
Tell how opened heaven is shown thee,<br>
Tell it with thy latest cry.</p>
<p>As the dying martyr kneeleth,<br>
For his murderers he appealeth,<br>
For their madness grieving sore;<br>
Then in Christ he sleepeth sweetly,<br>
And with Christ he reigneth meetly,<br>
Martyr firstfruits, evermore.</p>
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