There is a perhaps rather pedestrian translation in  Joseph Connelly, Hymns of the Roman Liturgy Newman Press, 1957, pp 98-101.

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> I have been searching for some time for a translation of Venantius
> Fortunatus's hymn, "Salve festa dies" but with no success.  A modern
> hymn, "Hail Thee Festal Day" or "Festal Day" is widely known in
> Anglican and other circles, but it is so loosely based on the Latin
> text as to be unusable for my students.
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> Our library is unable to obtain Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, _Hortus
> Conclusus_ a ten-volume collection published in the 1930s, where it is
> probably found in vol. 3;  and there is a dissertation by Barbara Jack
> Rogers, "The Poems of Venantius Fortunatus: A Translation and
> Commentary" (Rutgers, 1969), which may contain this poem, but I don't
> have ready access to it.  I will pursue these by interlibrary loan,
> but if anyone just happens to have direct access to an English
> translation, I'd appreciate help.  Or I'll have to translate it
> myself, I suppose, but making a good translation of poetry does not
> happen overnight!
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> Dennis Martin
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