Easter, Joyous Easter

Easter

joy­ous East­er

ho­ly hap­py time!

Bells ring out their mes­sage

Joy in ev­ery chime;

Sweetly through their mu­sic

Faint an ec­ho swells

Voices seem to min­gle with the bells.

Seek ye not the liv­ing here among the dead;

Christ the Lord is ris­en

ris­en as He said;

Blessèd re­as­sur­ance

gone the wea­ry night

Christ is ris­en! East­er breaks in floods of light!

Voices in a gar­den

near a rock-hewn tomb

Gracious heav’n­ly voic­es

Cheering earth’s dark gloom;

Voices from the glo­ry

Sent from thence to tell

Jesus lives again! Im­ma­nu­el!

Other voic­es ec­ho

through the East­er chime

One above all oth­ers

Speaks with pow’r sub­lime;

Tender words of com­fort

Peace and love pro­found

O’er the world tod­ay His words re­sound.