Jesus Lives! O Day of Days!

Jesus lives! O day of days!

Glad we bring our grate­ful praise;

He is ris­en! Gone the gloom

Angels sit with­in the tomb.

Vain the taunt of Jew de­ny­ing

Vain the vaunt o’er Je­sus dy­ing

Heav’nly voic­es

from the grave

Now pro­claim His pow­er to save.

He is ris­en! Come and see

How He tri­umphed migh­ti­ly!

Conqueror thus o’er all His foes

Jesus from the dead arose.

Lord and Pro­phet

spake He not?

Have ye His own words for­got

Telling

while in Ga­li­lee

Thus the vic­to­ry should be?

How through scorn and dire af­flict­ion

Thorny way and cru­ci­fix­ion

Vanquished death

and rent the grave—

Christ the King should live to save.

Tearful to the se­pul­cher

Mary comes in grief and fear;

Sees the stone now rolled away

Hears the wait­ing an­gels say:

Why the dead among the liv­ing

Seek ye? Lo! The Lord life-giv­ing

Rises

vain the watch

the grave:

Prince of Life

He lives to save!

Welcome then

the day of days!

Lord

’tis Thine our tune­ful praise;

Thine

for us

the Tempt­ed

Tried

Thine

for us

the Cru­ci­fied;

Thine for us the Re­sur­rect­ion

Thine the Life

the Sure Pro­tect­ion.

Savior! So­ver­eign ov­er the grave

May we know Thy pow­er to save.

He is ris­en! joy­ful­ly

Lord! we raise our song to Thee

Conqueror thus o’er all His foes

Jesus from the dead arose.