Sweet Easter Bells

On mountains height, by peaceful shores

Author: F. E. Pettingell
Published in 2 hymnals

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1. On mountain height, by peaceful shores,
O’er sunny meads, in shaded dells;
Awake, your sacred echoes, wake,
Ring out your chimes, sweet Easter bells!
Let humble fane and lofty dome
Each answer each in tuneful swells,
O’er every temple to His praise,
Ring loud and clear sweet Easter bells.

2. The orb of day his course pursues,
And in his path all shade dispels;
With him encircling earth around,
Ring out, ring out sweet Easter bells.
Sweet Easter bells, glad Easter bells,
Your liquid melody foretells
That morn when death itself shall die,
And Heaven ring, sweet Easter bells.

Author: F. E. Pettingell

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Text Information

First Line: On mountains height, by peaceful shores
Title: Sweet Easter Bells
Author: F. E. Pettingell
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Source: Fairer Than Day (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geoge C. Hugg, 1903), page 209
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Ring, Easter bells
Notes: Alternate tunes: DUANE STREET, George Coles, 1835; HOFFMAN, Charles H. Gabriel; MARYLAND, Alexander Zarnock
Copyright: Public Domain

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CREATION (Haydn)

The tune CREATION is taken from the chorus “The Heavens Are Telling” from the well known oratorio The Creation (1798) by Franz Joseph Haydn (b. Rohrau, Austria, 1732; d. Vienna, Austria, 1809). Haydn's life was relatively uneventful, but his artistic legacy was truly astounding. He began his mus…

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