Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: The Saviour ris'n today we praise
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Hymn Number: 159
Page Number: 088, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsTHE Saviour ris'n to-day we praise,
In concert with the bless'd;
For now we see his work complete,
And enter into rest,
On this first day a brighter scene
Of glory was display'd
By the Creating Word, than when
The universe was made.
He rises who mankind has bought
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.