‘CHRIST the Lord is risen today!’ Sons of men and angels say: Raise your joy and triumph high; Sing, O 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.
Vain the stone, the watch, the seal; Christ has burst the gates of hell; Death in vain forbids Him 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?
Soar we now where Christ has 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, Resurrected God of love.
Charles Wesley, 1707-88