Text:This Joyful Eastertide
Author:George Ratcliffe Woodward
Tune:VRUECHTEN
Harmonizer:Charles Wood

117. This Joyful Eastertide

This joyful Eastertide,
Away with sin and sorrow!
My Love, the Crucified,
Hath sprung to life this morrow.

Had Christ, that once was slain,
Ne'er burst his three-day prison,
Our faith had been in vain:
But now hath Christ arisen,
arisen, arisen, arisen.

Text Information
First Line: This joyful Eastertide
Title: This Joyful Eastertide
Author: George Ratcliffe Woodward
Publication Date: 1996
Topic: Easter; Faith; Story of Jesus (3 more...)
Source: Carols for Ascension and Easter, 1894
Tune Information
Name: VRUECHTEN
Harmonizer: Charles Wood
Key: G Major
Source: David's Psalmen, Amsterdam, 1685



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