CHRIST THE LORD IS RISEN TODAY

Christ the Lord is risen today,
Christians, haste your vows to pay;
Offer ye your praises meet
At the Paschal victim’s feet;
For the sheep the Lamb hath bled,
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Sinless in the sinner’s stead.
Christ the Lord is ris’n on high;
Now he lives, no more to die.

2. Christ, the victim undefil’d,
Man to God hath reconcil’d,
When in strange and awful strife
Met together death and life;
Christians, on this happy day
Hast with joy your wows to pay.
Christ the Lord is ris’n on high;
Now he lives, no more to die.

3. Say, O wond’ring Mary, say,
What thou sawest on thy way,
“I beheld, where Christ had lain,
Empty tomb and angels twain;
I beheld the glory bright
Of the rising Lord of light:
Christ my hope is ris’n again;
Now he lives, and lives to reign.”

4. Christ, who once for sinners bled,
Now the first-born from the dead,
Thron’d in endless might and power,
Lives and reigns for evermore.
Hail, eternal hope on high!
Hail, thou King of victory!
Hail, thou Prince of life ador’d!
Help us save us, gracious Lord.