This joyful Eastertide, away with sin
[Modernised Version]1 This joyful Eastertide
away with sin and sadness!
our Lord, the crucified
has filled our hearts with gladness:
Had Christ, who once was slain,
not burst his three-day prison
our faith would be in vain
but now has Christ arisen,
arisen, arisen, arisen.
2 My being shall rejoice
secure within God's keeping,
until the trumpet voice
shall wake us from our sleeping:
Chorus
3 Death's waters lost their chill
when Jesus crossed the river;
his love shall reach me still,
his mercy is for ever:
Chorus
Jublilate Hymns Version of a text by G. R. Woodward (1848 - 1934)
© in this version The Jubilate Group
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