'Tis Easter Day

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The lovely Spring has come again

Author: Charles William Wendte
Tune: CHRISTMAS CAROL (Gade)
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 The lovely spring has come again,
From sunlight skies descended;
The earth awakes to life and joy,
Cold winter`s reign is ended.
The blossoming trees and flow’rets fair,
With birds whose carols fill the air,
Sing "Christ is risen! Christ is arisen!"
’Tis Easter day!

2 Awake, my soul! to thee the spring
Doth bring its message vernal;
Awake from gloom, from sloth and sin,
To life and joy eternal!
O’er self and wrong the victory win,
A new and better life begin;
Sing "Christ is risen! Christ is arisen!"
’Tis Easter day!

3 With lilies white and blossoms rare
Our temple courts adorning,
We keep the soul’s high festival
This resurrection morning.
O vanquished death, where is thy sting?
O grave, in vain thy triumphing!
Sing "Christ is risen! Christ is arisen!"
’Tis Easter day!

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #15582

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Author: Charles William Wendte

Wendte, Rev. Charles William. (Boston, Massachusetts, June 11, 1844--September 9, 1911, San Francisco, California). He graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1869 and served Unitarian churches in Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Newport, Rhode Island From 1885 to 1900 he was engaged in denominational work on the Pacific Coast and thereafter was Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the American Unitarian Association, Boston, spending a part of each year in Europe. Long intrested in Sunday Schools he published in 1886 The Carol, for Sunday School and Home; a book of songs for use by children and young people entitled Jubilate Deo in 1900; and another in 1908 entitled Heart and Voice, a Collection of Songs and Services for the Sunda… Go to person page >

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