Hymn #469 - Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
Tune: ORIENTIS PARTIBUS
File: lsb469.txt

[1] "Christ the Lord is ris'n today!"
    Saints on earth and angels say;
    Raise your joys and triumphs high;
    Sing, ye heav'ns, and earth, reply.

[2] 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.

[3] Vain the stone, the watch, the seal;
    Christ has burst the gates of hell.
    Death in vain forbids His rise;
    Christ has opened paradise.

[4] Lives again our glorious King!
    Where, O death, is now your sting?
    Once He died our souls to save;
    Where thy victory, O grave?

[5] Soar we now where Christ has led;
    Foll'wing our exalted Head.
    Made like Him, like Him we rise;
    Ours the cross, the grave, the skies.

[6] Hail the Lord of earth and heav'n!
    Praise to Thee by both be giv'n!
    Thee we greet triumphant now:
    Hail, the resurrection, Thou!

Composers & Copyrights:
  Text: Charles Wesley, 1707-88
        Public Domain
  Tune: Pierre de Corbeille, d. 1221, adapt.
        Public Domain

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