Easter
Christ The Lord Is Risen Today (Lyra)
- Words:
- Stanzas 1-7, Charles Wesley, 1739. Stanzas 8-10, 14th Century; translated in Lyra Davidica.
- Music:
- 'Orientis Partibus' or 'Redhead 45' traditional French.
- Setting:
- "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1893.
- Metre:
- 7 7 7 7
- 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!
- 2Love's redeeming work is done,Fought the fight, the battle won,Lo! the Sun's eclipse is o'er,Lo! He sets in blood no more.
- 3Vain the stone, the watch, the seal,Christ hath burst the gates of hell!Death in vain forbids His rise,Christ hath opened paradise!
- 4Lives again our glorious KingWhere, O death, is now thy sting?Once He died our souls to save,Where thy victory, O grave?
- 5Soar we now where Christ hath ledFollowing our exalted Head;Made like Him, like Him we rise,Ours the cross, the grave, the skies.
- 6Hail, the Lord of earth and Heaven:Praise to Thee by both be given.Thee we greet triumphant now;Hail, the resurrection, thou.
- 7King of glory, Soul of bliss,Everlasting life is this,Thee to know, Thy power to prove,Thus to sing and thus to love.
- 8Hymns of praise then let us singUnto Christ, our heavenly KingWho endured the cross and graveSinners to redeem and save.
- 9But the pains that He enduredOur salvation have procured.Now above the sky He's KingWhere the angels ever sing.
- 10Jesus Christ is risen today,Our triumphant holy day.Who did once upon the crossSuffer to redeem our loss.
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In the hymnals
- Written in 1739, the words are in 1,291 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Orientis Partibus, is in 277 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.