Rejoice! the year upon its way

Rejoice! the year upon its way. Latin, author unknown, translated by Richard Ellis Roberts* (1879-1953). This is a translation of ‘Beata nobis gaudia’*, an early hymn of unknown origin for Pentecost sometimes attributed to Hilary of Poitiers*. This translation of six stanzas was printed in EH, and subsequently in a shorter form in BHB, BBCHB, and CH3. These books print four stanzas, omitting the accusations of drunkenness in stanza 3, and avoiding the obscurities of stanza 4. The EH text was the foundation on which the NEH hymn was based, but it was considerably: simplified. It was credited to ‘Editors, based upon the Latin c 4th century’.                                 EH (1906)...