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
John M. Neale's life is a study in contrasts: born into an evangelical home, he had sympathies toward Rome; in perpetual ill health, he was incredibly productive; of scholarly temperament, he devoted much time to improving social conditions in his area; often ignored or despised by his contemporaries, he is lauded today for his contributions to the church and hymnody. Neale's gifts came to expression early–he won the Seatonian prize for religious poetry eleven times while a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, England. He was ordained in the Church of England in 1842, but ill health and his strong support of the Oxford Movement kept him from ordinary parish ministry. So Neale spent the years between 1846 and 1866 as a warden of Sackvi… Go to person page >
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