He is risen from the dead.
Matthew 28:7
Words: Fanny Crosby, in Sunny-Side Songs (New York and Chicago, Illinois: Biglow & Main, 1893), page 88.
Music: Nördlingen W. Howard Doane (🔊 pdf nwc).
Bring the Easter lilies fair
To the house of praise and prayer;
Let them on the altar bloom,
Breathing there a sweet perfume.
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Christ hath risen from the tomb,
Clothed in Heav’n’s immortal bloom;
Bring the Easter lilies fair
To the house of praise and prayer.
Bring the Easter lilies white,
Bending softly in the light;
Meet for Him whose tender care
Watcheth o’er them everywhere.
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Bring the Easter lilies now,
While our hearts to Him we bow;
While our songs of gladness rise,
Borne by angels to the skies.
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