1Come, you faithful, raise the strainOf triumphant gladness;God has brought His IsraelInto joy from sadness;Loosed from Pharoah’s bitter yokeJacob’s sons and daughters;Led them with unmoistened footThrough the Red Sea waters. 2‘Tis the spring of souls today;Christ has burst His prison,And from three days’sleep in deathAs a sun has risen;All the winter of our sins,Long and […]
1Thine is the glory,Risen, conquering Son;Endless is the victory thou o’er death hast won.Angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away,Kept the folded grave-clothes where Thy body lay. Refrain :Thine is the glory,Risen, conquering Son;Endless is the victory Thou o’er death hast won. 2Lo! Jesus meets us.Risen from the tomb,Lovingly He greets us,Scatters fear and
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! 1The strife is o’er, the battle done;Now is the victor’s triumph won!Now be the song of praise begun. Alleluia! 2The pow’rs of death have done their worst,But Christ their legions has dispersed.Let shouts of holy joy outburst. Alleluia! 3The three sad days have quickly sped,He rises glorious from the dead.All glory to
1Good Christian friends, rejoice and sing!Now is the triumph of our King!To all the world glad news we bring:Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! 2The Lord of life is risen for aye;Bring flowers of song to strew His way;Let all mankind rejoice and say:Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! 3Praise we in songs of victoryThat love, that life which cannot die,And
1Star of our hope! He’ll soon appear,The last loud trumpet speaks Him near;Hail Him, all saints, from pole to pole-How welcome to the faithful soul! 2From heaven angelic voices sound:Behold the Lord of glory crowned,Arrayed in majesty divine,And in His highest glories shine. 3The grave yields up its precious trust,Which long has slumbered in the
1Now the green blade rises from the buried grain,What that in dark earth many days has lain;Love lives again, that with the dead has been;Love is come again like wheat arising green. 2In the grave they laid Him, love by hatred slain,Thinking that He would never wake again,Laid in the earth like grain that sleeps
1Hail the day that sees Him rise, Alleluia!Glorious to His native skies; Alleluia!Christ, awhile to mortals giv’n, Alleluia!Enters now the highest heav’n! Alleluia! 2There the glorious triumph waits; Alleluia!Lift your heads, eternal gates! Alleluia!Wide unfold the radiant scene; Alleluia!Take the King of glory in! Alleluia! 3See! He lifts His hands above; Alleluia!See! He shows the
1Jesus, your blood and righteousnessMy beauty are, my glorious dress;Mid flaming worlds, in these arrayed,With joy shall I lift up my head. 2Bold shall I stand in that great day,Cleansed and redeemed, no debt to pay;For by your cross absolved I amFrom sin and guilt, from fear and shame. 3Lord, I believe your precious blood,Which
1Once our blessed Christ of beautyWas veiled off from human views;But through suffering, death, and sorrowHe has rent the veil in two. Refrain:O behold the Man of Sorrows!O behold Him in plain view!Lo! He is the mighty ConquerorSince her rent the veil in two;Lo! He is the mighty ConquerorSince her rent the veil in two.
1The wonders of redeeming loveOur highest thoughts exceed;The Son of God comes from aboveFor sinful man to bleed. 2He gives Himself, His life, His all,A sinless sacrifice.For man He drains the cup of gall,For man the victim dies. 3And now before His Father’s faceHis precious blood He pleads;For those who seek the throne of graceHis
