Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Awake ye saints awake
Topic: Opening
Writer: Thomas Cotterill
Composer: James Fillmore
Meter: HM
Tune: Wyatt
Hymn Number: 421
Page Number: 138, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsAwake, ye saints awake,
And hail the sacred day,
In loftiest songs of praise
Your grateful homage pay;
Come bless the day that God hath blest,
The type of heaven's e-ter-nal rest.
On this auspicious morn
The Lord of life arose,
And burst the bars of death,
And vanquished all our foes;
And now he pleads our cause above,
And reaps the fruit of all his love.
All hail, triumphant Lord!
Heaven with hosannas rings;
And earth, in humbler strains,
Thy praise responsive sings:
Worthy the Lamb that once was slain,
Through endless years to live and reign.