Sing Alleluia forth in duteous praise

Sing Alleluia forth in duteous praise. Latin, anonymous, translated by John Ellerton* (1826-1893). This is a translation by Ellerton of part of a hymn of nine stanzas beginning ‘Alleluia piis edite laudibus’, ‘popular in the tenth and eleventh centuries’ (Companion to H40, p. 341, where the Latin text is printed). This hymn derives from the Roman liturgy preserved in a series of 11th-century manuscripts commonly misnamed the ‘Mozarabic Breviary’* . It was Ellerton’s first hymn apart from those which he had written for children. It was published in The Churchman’s Family Magazine (April 1865) with an explanatory note: ‘Alleluia was discontinued from Septuagesima (or from Lent) to Easter,...