Showing care for them that languish, Sparing man they spare not anguish In pursuit of evil things. Smiting sinners, and reminding, Only loosing, only binding By the power which freedom brings. Type of Jubilee returning Is that day (if thou art learning Mysteries of holy time) On the which three thousand hearing, Came in faith, no longer fearing, And the Church sprang up sublime. Jubilee, for so they knew it, Who were changed and succored through it, Since it freely called unto it Debts and doubts, and set them right. May the loving kindness spoken Unto us distressed and broken, Give release, and as a token Make us worthy of the light. ZYMA VETUS EXPURGETUR. Purge away the ancient leaven, Let a paschal joy be given, For our Lord is risen again. This the day of better vision, This the day of vast decision, By the Word of God to men. This despoiled Egyptian spoilers, This set free the Hebrew toilers From the bonds in which they lay, Where, in iron furnace fastened, Tyrants all their labor hastened In cement and straw and clay. Now in praise of holy living, Holy triumph, godlike giving, Let the free voice sound its strain. This the day the Lord created, This our grief has terminated, Comfort bringing to our pain. Things to come let law betoken, Christ shows promises unbroken, Still appearing all in all. Through his blood the sword though awful Blunted droops—our way is lawful, And the prohibitions fall. He who gave us cause of laughter, (Since the rescue followed after) Glad of heart is Isaac still; Joseph from the pit is lifted, As from death our Lord, through rifted Clouds that veiled the heavenly will. Thus that serpent-rod, surprising Malice in its worst devising, Swallowed all the other rods. Thus the brazen serpent vying With the poison, when the dying Trusted God instead of gods. Through the jaw, with hook and cable Christ to seize the foe is able; On the cockatrice’s den He, the weanèd child, is sitting, While afar in fear is flitting That old enemy of men. They who laughed at good Elias Feel the cursing of the pious Struck by vengeance undeferred; While King David feigning madness, And the goat that bears our sadness Flee as does the sacred bird. Samson with a jawbone merely Slays a thousand foes, and clearly Spurns alliance to their name. Samson breaking Gaza’s portal, Bears it off, as life immortal Bursts the gate of deathly shame. Thus does Judah’s Lion ever Burst the bonds that none may sever, When the third day glimmers on; At his Father’s voice awaking, To the Church’s bosom taking Many a dear and ransomed son.