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Hymn: How calm and beautiful the morn (FL)

Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon

Date: 1848

Compiler: A S Hayden

Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden

First Line: How calm and beautiful the morn

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CHM

Tune: How Calm and Beautiful the Morn

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 162, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

How calm and beautiful the morn

That gilds the sacred tomb,

Where once the Crucified was borne,

And veil'd in midnight gloom!

Oh, weep no more the Saviour slain;

The Lord is ris'n, he lives again.



Ye mourning saints, dry ev'ry tear

For your departed Lord;

"Behold the place, he is not there,"

The tomb is all unbarr'd;

The gates of death were closed in vain;

The Lord is ris'n, he lives again.



Now cheerful to the house of pray'r

Your early footsteps bend;

The Saviour will himself be there,

Your Advocate and Friend:

Once by the law your hopes were slain,

But now in Christ ye live again.



How tranquil now the rising day!

'Tis Jesus still appears,

A risen Lord, to chase away

Your unbelieving fears:

Oh, weep no more your comforts slain

The Lord is ris'n, he lives again.



And when the shades of evening fall,

When life's last hour draws nigh,

If Jesus shines upon the soul,

How blissful then to die!

Since he has ris'n that once was slain

Ye die in Christ to live again.