1 Days grow longer, sunbeams stronger,
Eastertide makes all things new;
Lent is banished, sadness vanished;
Christ hath risen, rise we, too!
Christmas meetings,
Twelfth night greetings,
Whitsun sports are glad and gay;
But the lightest, and the brightest
Of our feasts is Easter Day.
Refrain:
Hallelujah!
Blessèd Feast of Easter Day.
2 Earthly story crowns with glory
Him who earthly foes o’ercame;
Victor’s laurel ends the quarrel;
Honor dwells about His name;
Vanished legions, conquered regions
Kings deposed and princes bound;
Exaltation, acclamation,
Fill His ears and float around. [Refrain]
3 Then unending and transcending
Be the glory of the Son;
For transcendent and resplendent
Was the vict’ry He hath won.
Death hath yielded, life is shielded,
Satan bound, and Hell in chains;
Chased is terror, fled is error,
Grief is past, and joy remains. [Refrain]
Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16180