Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Arisen

This joyful Eastertide,
away with care and sorrow!
My Love, the Crucified,
hath sprung to life this morrow.

Had Christ, that once was slain,
not burst his three-day prison,
our faith had been in vain;
but now is Christ arisen,
arisen, arisen, arisen.


Fresco by Piero della Francesca. Excerpts from Abbey lauds hymn by George R. Woodward, 1894