We Sing Today Our Easter Hymn

We sing to­day our Eas­ter hymn

Our glad ho­san­nas ring­ing

With che­ru­bim and se­ra­phim

Our meed of prais­es bring­ing;

We will for­get the night of woe

When Christ our Lord lay slain

And on­ly chant the joy we know

That He doth live again.

He con­quered all that did op­pose

With fiend and de­mon war­ring

And brave­ly bat­tled ’gainst our foes

With wounds His vis­age mar­ring.

He met

at length

the last of all

That dread­ed foe called Death

And on the cross did seem to fall

Beneath his nox­ious breath.

But now

to­day we sing the song

Which tells His tri­umph o’er him

Death could not hold the Mas­ter long

And so gave way be­fore Him.

Then car­ol with a grate­ful heart

For all that Christ hath done

His break­ing Sa­tan’s fierc­est dart

For life that He hath won.