Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Date: 1853
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: A Campbell
First Line: Christ the Lord is risen today
Topic: Resurrection of Christ
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 7s
Tune:
Hymn Number: Psalm 33
Page Number: 063, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsCHRIST the Lord is risen to-day!
Sons of men and angels say;
Raise your joys and triumphs high;
Sing, you heav'ns, and earth reply!
Love's redeeming work is done--
Fought the fight--the battle won--
Lo! the 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 open'd Paradise.
Lives again our glorious King!
Where, O death, is now thy sting?
Once he died our souls to save--
Where's thy vict'ry, boasting grave?
Soar we now where Christ has led,
Foll'wing our exalted Head;
Made like Him, like Him we rise--
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies.
What though once we perish'd all,
Partners of our parents' fall,
Better life we now receive--
In our heav'nly Adam live.
Hail, thou Lord of earth and heav'n!
Praise to thee by both are giv'n;
Thee we greet, triumphant now--
Hail! the resurrection Thou.