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Text:Angel, roll the rock away
Author:Thomas Scott
Tune:EASTER HYMN

81. Angel, roll the rock away

1 Angel, roll the rock away;
Death, yield up thy mighty prey:
See, He rises from the tomb,
Glowing in immortal bloom!

2 'Tis the Savior! angels, raise
Fame's eternal trump of praise;
Let the earth's remotest bound
Hear the joy-inspiring sound.

3 Heav'n displays its portals wide;
Glorious Hero, through them ride:
King of glory! mount Thy throne,
Thy great Father's and Thine own.

4 Host of heav'n, seraphic fires!
Raptured, sweep your sounding lyres,
Sons of men! in humbler strain
Sing your mighty Savior's reign.

5 Every note with wonder swell;
Sin o'erthrown, and captive hell!
Where is now, O death! Thy sting?
Where thy terrors, vanquished king?

Text Information
First Line: Angel, roll the rock away
Author: Thomas Scott (1769)
Meter: 7s. No. 4
Language: English
Publication Date: 1908
Topic: The Church Year: Easter; Easter Day
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: EASTER HYMN
Meter: 7s. No. 4
Key: C Major
Source: C. M. Cady, Cantica Sacra
Notes: Public Domain.



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