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Beautiful Easter

Author: James Rowe Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Oh, beautiful, beautiful Easter Refrain First Line: Easter! Easter! Lyrics: 1 Oh, beautiful, beautiful Easter, What joy to us you bring! What pleasures sweet, when here we meet, To praise our risen king! Refrain: Easter! Easter! Beautiful, beautiful Easter! Day so dear, so full of cheer, And happiness and love! Easter! Easter! Beautiful, beautiful Easter! Christians, raise your sweetest praise To God above. 2 No sadness now lingers around us, For all the world looks bright; And glad eyes glow, where’er we go, With blessed Easter light. 3 The songbirds are joyously singing, And bells make merry rhyme; Yes, all things say or sing today, "Tis gladsome Easter-time." 4 Oh, glorious Savior, thy praises Today our souls employ, For thou dost live again to give This time of light and joy. Used With Tune: [Oh, beautiful, beautiful Easter]
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[Oh, beautiful, beautiful Easter]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Samuel W. Beazley Incipit: 53333 23444 52123 Used With Text: Beautiful Easter
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Beautiful Easter

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: His Worthy Praise #187 (1915) First Line: Oh, beautiful, beautiful Easter Refrain First Line: Easter! Easter! Lyrics: 1 Oh, beautiful, beautiful Easter, What joy to us you bring! What pleasures sweet, when here we meet, To praise our risen king! Refrain: Easter! Easter! Beautiful, beautiful Easter! Day so dear, so full of cheer, And happiness and love! Easter! Easter! Beautiful, beautiful Easter! Christians, raise your sweetest praise To God above. 2 No sadness now lingers around us, For all the world looks bright; And glad eyes glow, where’er we go, With blessed Easter light. 3 The songbirds are joyously singing, And bells make merry rhyme; Yes, all things say or sing today, "Tis gladsome Easter-time." 4 Oh, glorious Savior, thy praises Today our souls employ, For thou dost live again to give This time of light and joy. Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, beautiful, beautiful Easter]
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Beautiful Easter

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #8589 First Line: Oh, beautiful, beautiful Easter Refrain First Line: Easter! Easter! Lyrics: 1 Oh, beautiful, beautiful Easter, What joy to us you bring! What pleasures sweet, when here we meet, To praise our risen king! Refrain: Easter! Easter! Beautiful, beautiful Easter! Day so dear, so full of cheer, And happiness and love! Easter! Easter! Beautiful, beautiful Easter! Christians, raise your sweetest praise To God above. 2 No sadness now lingers around us, For all the world looks bright; And glad eyes glow, where’er we go, With blessèd Easter light. [Refrain] 3 The songbirds are joyously singing, And bells make merry rhyme; Yes, all things say or sing today, ’Tis gladsome Easter-time. [Refrain] 4 Oh, glorious Savior, Thy praises Today our souls employ, For Thou dost live again to give This time of light and joy. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, beautiful, beautiful Easter]
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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "Beautiful Easter" in His Worthy Praise Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
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Samuel W. Beazley

1873 - 1944 Composer of "[Oh, beautiful, beautiful Easter]" in His Worthy Praise Samuel W. Beazley was born in Sparta, Virginia in 1873. He was a music scholar and taught music at Shenandoah College for five years. He composed over 4,000 gospel songs during his lifetime. Samuel W. Beazley maintained a successful publishing business in Chicago, Illinois. He died in Chicago on September 16, 1944. He was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1992. NN, Hymnary editor. Source: Gospel Music Hall of Fame
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