Lyrics ~ 5 verses
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 victorious King;
where, O death, is now thy sting?
Dying once, he all doth 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.
Hail the Lord of earth and heaven!
Praise to thee by both be given:
thee we greet triumphant now;
hail, the Resurrection thou!
Meter: 77 77. Lyrics by Charles Wesley (1707 – 1788). Public Domain.
Recording
- Tune: Savannah from the John Wesley’s ‘Foundery Collection’ (1742)
- Performance Copyright ℗ 2016 Richard M S Irwin. All rights reserved.
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