In Thy Glorious Resurrection

In Thy glo­ri­ous re­sur­rect­ion

Lord

we see a world’s erect­ion

Man in Thee is glo­ri­fied.

Bliss

for which the pa­tri­archs pant­ed

Joys

by ho­ly sag­es chant­ed

Now in Thee are ve­ri­fied.

Oracles of for­mer ages

Veiled in dim pro­phet­ic pag­es

Now lie op­en to the sight;

Now the types

which glim­mered dark­ling

In the twi­light gloom

are spark­ling

In the blaze of noon­day light.

Isaac from the wood is ris­en;

Joseph is­sues from the pri­son;

See the Pas­chal Lamb which saves;

Israel through the sea is land­ed

Pharaoh and his hosts are strand­ed

And are whelm­èd in the waves.

See the clou­dy pil­lar lead­ing

Rock re­fresh­ing

man­na feed­ing;

Joshua fights and Mo­ses prays;

See the lift­ed wave-sheaf

cheer­ing

Pledge of har­vest-fruits ap­pear­ing

Joyful dawn of hap­py days.

Samson here at night is tear­ing

Gaza’s bra­zen gates

and bear­ing

To the top of Heb­ron’s hill;

Jonah comes from stor­my surg­es

From his three-days’ grave emerg­es

Bids be­ware of com­ing ill.

Thus Thy re­sur­rect­ion’s glo­ry

Sheds a light on an­cient sto­ry;

And it casts a for­ward ray

Beacon light of so­lemn warn­ing

To the dawn of that great morn­ing

Ushering in the judg­ment day.

Ever since Thy death and ris­ing

Thou the na­tions art bap­tiz­ing

In Thy death’s si­mi­li­tude;

Dead to sin

and ev­er dy­ing

And our mem­bers mor­ti­fy­ing

May we walk with life re­newed!

Forth from Thy first East­er go­ing

Sundays are for ev­er flow­ing

Onward to a bound­less sea;

Lord

may they for Thee pre­pare us

On a ho­ly riv­er bear us

To a calm eter­ni­ty.