Resurgit: A Collection of Hymns and Songs of the Resurrection

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Frank Foxcroft
Lee and Shepard, 1879 - Easter hymns - 352 pages
 

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Page 4 - Now let the heavens be joyful ; Let earth her song begin ; Let the round world keep triumph, And all that is therein...
Page 185 - LET ME RISE AS LARKS, HARMONIOUSLY, AND SING THIS DAY THY VICTORIES: THEN SHALL THE FALL FURTHER THE FLIGHT IN ME.
Page 46 - Hope of every contrite heart, O Joy of all the meek ! To those who fall, how kind thou art...
Page 205 - He sets in blood no more. 3 Vain the stone, the watch, the seal ; Christ hath burst the gates of hell ; Death in vain forbids His rise ; Christ hath opened Paradise. 4 Lives again our glorious King ; Where, O death, is now thy sting?
Page 205 - Soar we now where Christ has led, Following our exalted Head ; Made like Him, like Him we rise, Ours the cross, the grave, the skies.
Page 45 - TESUS, the very thought of Thee With sweetness fills my breast ; But sweeter far Thy face to see, And in Thy presence rest.
Page 227 - Christians, dry your flowing tears ; Chase those unbelieving fears ; Look on his deserted grave ; Doubt no more his power to save. 3 Ye who are of death afraid, Triumph in the scattered shade ; Drive your anxious fears away ; See the place where Jesus lay.
Page 188 - Into thy face ; Thou art grown fair and full of grace, Much in request, much sought for, as a good. For we do now behold thee gay and glad, As at dooms-day ; When souls shall wear their new aray, And all thy bones with beautie shall be clad. Therefore we can go die as sleep, and trust Half that we have Unto an honest faithfull grave ; Making our pillows either down, or dust.
Page 3 - Our hearts be pure from evil, That we may see aright The Lord in rays eternal Of resurrection-light ; And, listening to his accents, May hear, so calm and plain, His own " All hail ! " and, hearing, May raise the victor-strain.
Page 171 - Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day didst make thy triumph over death and sin; and having harrowed hell, didst bring away captivity thence captive, us to win...

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