Awake and Sing

Awake

awake

O heart

and sing!

The Lord is ris’n to­day!

Behold a gleam of an­gel wings;

The stone is rolled away!

Awake

awake

O heart

and sing!

The gloom of death is o’er;

Bright an­gels haste the news to bring

He lives for­ev­er­more!

Awake from thy slum­ber

Morn now is dawn­ing;

Jesus

the vic­tor

Comes from the con­quered tomb.

O sing forth a wel­come

Sing songs the sweet­est;

Jesus hath ris­en!

He lives for­ev­er­more!

No long­er death has cru­el sway;

A light sur­rounds the grave!

All hail the joy of East­er day;

The Lord is strong to save!

Awake

O heart

the morn is bright

All doubt and fear is o’er!

The Lord is ris’n in pow­er and might

He lives for­ev­er­more!

Awake and hail with heart and voice

The mes­sage of these hours!

With all the wak­en­ing earth re­joice;

Be glad with birds and flow­ers.

Behold the joy­ous East­er day

That brings the news to earth

Of East­er morn­ing far away

When life from death had birth.