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| CHRIST is risen! He is not here | |
| Chain’d within our earthly sphere; | |
| As in garb of flesh before, | |
| Henceforth know we Him no more. | |
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| Christ is risen! Cross and tomb | 5 |
| Sink behind in passing gloom! | |
| From these shadows drear and dim, | |
| We must rise and live with Him. | |
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| Christ is risen! Our life-long sorrow | |
| Fades before a brighter morrow. | 10 |
| For a time our courses sever, | |
| Soon to be rejoin’d for ever. | |
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| Christ is risen! The truth that died | |
| Mock’d and scourged and crucified, | |
| Will unquestion’d mount on high, | 15 |
| Next to God’s own majesty. | |
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| Christ is risen! Deep within | |
| Every charnel-house of sin | |
| Lives a spark, which yet may shine | |
| Radiant with a life divine. | 20 |
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| Christ is risen! The things of earth | |
| Lose their power and change their worth, | |
| As we soar to things above— | |
| Cloudless light and boundless Love. | |
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| Christ is risen! Lo, all is new, | 25 |
| Hail the coming Good and True! | |
| From the old world’s weight releas’d, | |
| Therefore let us keep the Feast. | |
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| Keep the feast with mind sincere | |
| Conscience as the noontide clear, | 30 |
| Heart untouch’d by falsehood’s leaven, | |
| Free-born citizens of heaven. | |
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