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First champion of the Crucified	A
Who when the fight began	B
Between the Church and worldly pride	A
So nobly fought so nobly died	A
The foremost in the van	B
While rallied to your valiant side	A
The red robed martyr band	C
To night with glad and high acclaim	D
We venerate thy saintly name	D
Accept Saint Stephen to thy praise	E
And glory these our lowly lays	E
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The chosen twelve with chrismed hand	C
And burning zeal within	F
Led forth their small yet fearless band	C
On Pentecost and took their stand	C
Against the world and sin	F
While rang aloud the battle cry	G
The hated Christians all must die	G
As died the Nazarene before	H
The God they believe in and adore	H
Yet Stephen's heart quailed not with fear	I
At persecution's cry	G
But loving as he did the cause	J
Of Jesus and His faith and laws	K
Prepared himself to die	G
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He faced his foes with burning zeal	L
Such zeal as only saints can feel	L
He told them how the Lord had stood	M
Within their midst so great and good	M
How he had through Judea trod	N
How wonders marked his way the God	N
How he had cured the blind the lame	D
The deaf the palsied and the maimed	O
And how with awful wondrous might	P
He raised the dead to life and light	P
And how his people knew Him not	Q
Had eyes and still had seen Him not	Q
Had ears and still had heard Him not	Q
Had hearts and comprehended not	Q
Then said he pointing to the right	P
Where darkly rose Golgotha's height	P
There have ye slain the Holy One	R
Your Saviour and God's only Son	R
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They gnashed their teeth in raging ire	S
Those dark and cruel men	T
They vowed a vengeance deep and dire	S
Against Saint Stephen then	T
Yet he was calm a radiant light	P
Around his forehead gleamed	U
He raised his eyes a wondrous sight	P
He saw so grand it was and bright	P
His soul was filled with such delight	P
That he an angel seemed	U
Then spoke the Saint A vision grand	C
Bursts on me from above	V
The doors of heaven open stand	C
And at the Father's own right hand	C
I see the Lord I love	V
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Away with him the rabble cry	G
With swelling rage and hate	W
But Stephen still gazed on the sky	G
His heart was with his Lord on high	G
He heeded not his fate	W
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The gathering crowd in fury wild	X
Rush on the 'raptured Saint	Y
And seize their victim mute and mild	X
Who like his master though reviled	X
Still uttered no complaint	Y
	-
With angry shouts they rend the air	Z
They drag him to the city gate	W
They bind his hands and feet and there	Z
While whispered he for them a prayer	Z
The martyr meets his fate	W
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First fearless witness to his belief	A2
In Jesus Crucified	A
The red robed martyrs' noble chief	A2
Thus for his Master died	A
And to the end of time his name	D
Our Holy Church shall e'er proclaim	D
And with a mother's pride shall tell	B2
How her great proto martyr fell	B2

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