Sing, all ye Christian people!
Swing, bells, in every steeple!
   For Christ to life is risen,
   Set free from death's dark prison.
With joyfulness, with joyfulness your alleluyas sing,
For Christ has come again to greet the spring.

Green now is on the larches;
Springtime in triumph marches,
   And every day uncloses
   A host of new primroses:
Then daffodils and marybuds let us in garlands bring,
For Christ has come again to greet the spring.

Skylarks, the earth forsaking,
Soar to their music-making,
   And in the roof-tree's hollow
   Now builds the trusting swallow:
So cries to him, so flies to him my soul on fearless wing,
For Christ has come again to greet the spring.