Songs

Christ the Lord is risen today!

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				7.7.7.7.D.

1	“Christ the Lord is risen today!”
	Sons of men and angels say;
	Raise your joys and triumphs high;
	Sing, ye heavens, and, earth, reply.
	Love's redeeming work is done,
	Fought the fight, the battle won.
	Lo, our Sun's eclipse is o'er;
	Lo, He sets in blood no more.

2	Vain the stone, the watch, the seal;
	Christ has burst the gates of hell.
	Death in vain forbids His rise;
	Christ has opened Paradise.
	Lives again our glorious King;
	Where, O Death, is now thy sting?
	Once He died our souls to save;
	Where thy victory, O Grave?

3	Soar we now where Christ hath led,
	Following our exalted Head.
	Made like Him, like Him we rise;
	Ours the cross, the grave, the skies.
	King of Glory, Soul of bliss,
	Everlasting life is this:
	Thee to know, Thy power to prove,
	Thus to sing, and thus to love.

									C. Wesley