The Lord is risen indeed.
Luke 24:34
Words: Mrs. J. W. Anderson, in Carols Old and Carols New, edited by Charles L. Hutchins (Boston, Massachusetts: Parish Choir, 1916), number 695.
Music: Hermann Kotzschmar (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know Anderson’s full name, or where to get a good photo of her (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Come forth and bring your garlands,
Come forth with praise and song;
Enwreath the altars with your flow’rs,
And to the temples throng;
For ’tis the glorious Easter!
A day for prayer and praise,
When all who love the Savior
May join our gladsome lays.
We know that sin and sorrow
At times must shadow all;
And Death’s dark mantle cover
The earth, as with a pall;
Yet still—as o’er our Savior—
Bright angels vigils keep
Within the tomb, and hover
Where our beloved ones sleep!
And as our Lord and Savior
Came forth from out the tomb,
And walking in the garden’s shade,
Dispelled its somber gloom;
So now we feel His presence,
And still we hear His voice,
Who said to Mary, Do not fear!
Behold Me and rejoice!
Yea! Christ the Lord is risen!
Oh! grace and truth divine!
Enfold us in Thy presence,
Within our spirits shine;
Uphold, and cheer, and guide us!
That we may truly say —
To us the Lord is ris’n indeed,
This glorious Easter Day!