Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist
Date: 1848
Compiler: S W Leonard and A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard
First Line: The Saviour risen today we praise
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: CM
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Hymn Number: 17
Page Number: 019, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThe Saviour risen today we praise
In concert with the blessed;
For now we see his work complete,
And enter into rest.
On this first day a brighter scene
Of glory was displayed
By the creating word, than when
The universe was made.
He rises who mankind has brought
With grief and pain extreme;
'Twas great to speak the world from nought,
'Twas greater to redeem
How vain the stone, the watch, the seal;
Nought can forbid his rise;
'Tis he who shuts the gates of hell
And opens paradise.