O happy, holy Easter morn

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1 O happy, holy Easter morn,
What promise lights thy radiant sky!
Earth hails again her hope newborn,
And death is lost in victory.

2 From heavenly heights a glory streams,
Backward the mists of doubt are hurled,
Sorrow and sin are baseless dreams:
A morning freshness holds the world.

3 O promise sweet! O lovely light!
O life that shall begin again
As spotless as the lilies white,
Perfect and fair, without a stain!

4 Look up to Him whose love is sure,
And with the new day’s blossoming
Become as little children pure,
In God’s divine, immortal spring.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #15579

Author: Celia Thaxter

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Text Information

First Line: O happy, holy Easter morn
Author: Celia Thaxter
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

DUKE STREET

First published anonymously in Henry Boyd's Select Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1793), DUKE STREET was credited to John Hatton (b. Warrington, England, c. 1710; d, St. Helen's, Lancaster, England, 1793) in William Dixon's Euphonia (1805). Virtually nothing is known about Hatton, its composer,…

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