Christ is risen

(short introduction)

Christ is risen, Christ is risen!
Tell it out with joyful voice:
Christ has burst the three days' prison;
let the whole wide earth rejoice:
death is conquered, we are free,
Christ has won the victory.

Come you sad and fearful-hearted,
with glad smile and radiant face!
Death's long shadows have departed;
Jesus' woes are over now,
and the passion that he bore
sin and pain can reach no more.

Come, with glad and holy hymning,
hail our God's triumphant day;
not one blackened cloud is dimming
all this glorioius morning ray,
breaking o'er the purple east,
symbol of our Easter feast.

Christ is risen, Christ is risen!
Christ has opened heaven's gate;
we are free from sin's dark prison,
risen to a holier state;
and a brighter Easter beam
on our longing eyes shall stream.

Words: Cecil Frances Alexander (19thC)
Music: Unser Herrscher, Joachim Neander (17thC)
Sequence: Dall Forsythe, Church of St. John the Evangelist