The Strife is O'er, the Battle Done | |
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by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina/Edwin George Monk/Melchior Vulpius | |
Native name | Finita iam sunt proelia |
Genre | Hymn |
Occasion | Easter |
Text | 17th. C., transl. Francis Pott |
Language | English |
Based on | Mark 16:6 |
Meter | 8.8.8 with alleluia |
Melody | Victory or Vulpius |
"The Strife is O'er, the Battle Done" is a Christian hymn that is traditionally sung at Easter to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus. It was originally a 17th-century Latin hymn, "Finita iam sunt proelia"; the popular English-language version is an 1861 translation by the English hymnwriter Francis Pott.
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