RECENTLY released an article about the important Sequence for Easter: Víctimæ Pascháli Laudes. I mentioned that many poets have tried to “capture” this text in English, but none has achieved tremendous success (for a variety of reasons). One of the best translations is a “free” metrical translation by Leeson (“Christ The Lord Is Ris’n Today”):
Rehearsal videos for each individual voice await you at #697.
Three (3) interesting attempts at translation follow. The first is by Robert Campbell of Skerrington, who converted to Catholicism toward the end of his life:
George Ratcliffe Woodward, a Protestant, translated the text as follows:
Here is another attempt by Woodward, published in a 1910 Protestant hymnal.
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