Verse 1
Christ the Lord is risen today!
Hallelujah!
Sons of men and angels say,
Hallelujah!
Raise your songs and triumphs high:
Hallelujah!
Sing, ye heav’ns; thou earth reply:
Hallelujah!
Verse 2
Love’s redeeming work is done,
Fought the fight, the battle won:
Lo! our sun’s eclipse is o’er;
Lo! he sets in blood no more:
Verse 3
Vain the stone, the watch, the seal,
Christ hath burst the gates of hell;
Death in vain forbids Him rise;
Christ hath opened Paradise.
Verse 4
Lives again our glorious King:
Where, O death, is now thy sting?
Once He died our souls to save:
Where’s thy victory, O grave?
Verse 5
Soar we now where Christ hath led,
Following our exalted Head:
Made like Him, like Him we rise;
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies.
Verse 6
Hail! the Lord of earth and heaven;
Praise to Thee by both be given,
Thee we greet triumphant now:
Hail! the Resurrection, Thou!
Charles Wesley.