415 Joy Dawned Again on Easter Day
Latin
Tr. John Mason Neale, 1818-66
The Latin original of this hymn comprises stanzas 9, 10, and 11 of Aurora lucis rutilat, one of the most ancient Easter hymns in existence. It is found in the earliest monastic hymnaries of the sixth to the ninth centuries with a wide diffusion in continental as well as Anglo-Saxon and Celtic sources. Its authorship is unknown.
The Latin text may be found in Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi, v. 51, p. 89; A. S. Walpole, Early Latin Hymns, Cambridge University Press, 1922, p. 356; or Hymns Ancient and Modern, Historical Edition, London: Clowes, 1909, p. 199.