Said the angel, “He is risen!” Tell it out with joyful voice: He has burst His three days’ prison; Let the whole wide earth rejoice: Death is conquered, we are free, Christ has won the victory.
Come, ye sad and fearful hearted, With glad smile and radiant brow! Death’s long shadows have departed; All our woes are over now, Due to passion that He bore Sin and pain can vex no more.
Come, with high and holy hymning, Chant our Lord’s triumphant day; Not one darksome cloud is dimming Yonder glorious morning ray, Breaking over the purple east: Brighter far our Easter feast.
He is risen, He is risen! He has opened heaven’s gate: We are free from sin’s dark prison, Risen to a holier state; And a brighter Easter beam On our longing eyes shall stream. |