Alleluia, song of gladness

See ‘Alleluia, song of sweetness’*. The first line as above is that preferred by many books in Canada and the USA, and in H40 and H82 , although the Latin original, ‘Alleluya, dulce carmen’, is closer to ‘sweetness’ (dulce = sweet) than to ‘gladness’. ‘Alleluia, song of gladness’ is also the first line in Cooke* and Denton*’s Church Hymnal* of...

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