Christ the Lord Is Risen To-day

“Christ the Lord is risen to-day,”Sons of men and angels say.Raise your joys and triumphs high;Sing, ye heavens, and, earth, reply.

Love’s redeeming work is done,Fought the fight, the battle won;Lo! our Sun’s eclipse is o’er;Lo! He sets in blood no more.

Vain the stone, the watch, the seal;Christ has burst the gates of hell.Death in vain forbids His rise;Christ has opened Paradise.

Lives again our glorious King;Where, O Death, is now thy sting?Dying once, He all doth save;Where thy victory, O Grave?

Soar we now where Christ has led,Following our exalted Head.Made like Him, like Him we rise;Ours the cross, the grave, the skies.

Hail the Lord of earth and heav’n!Praise to Thee by both be giv’n!Thee we greet triumphant now;Hail, the Resurrection Thou!