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Hymn: Morning breaks upon the tomb (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: Morning breaks upon the tomb

Topic: Christ/Resurrection

Writer: William Collyer

Composer: Lowell Mason

Meter: 7s double

Tune: Amboy

Hymn Number: 127

Page Number: 052, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

MORNING breaks upon the tomb,

Jesus scatters all its gloom;

Day of triumph through the skies--

See the glorious Saviour rise!

Ye who are of death afraid,

Triumph in the scatter'd shade;

Drive your anxious cares away;

See the place where Jesus lay!