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by Edward Young (1683 - 1765) and by William Billings (1746 - 1800)

Easter Anthem
Language: English 
The Lord is risen indeed, Hallelujah.
Now is Christ risen from the dead,
and become the first fruits of them that slept. 
Hallelujah.
And did He rise?
Did He rise?
Hear, O ye nations, hear it, O ye dead.
He rose, He rose, He rose, He rose,
He burst the bars of death
and triumphed o'er the grave.
Shout, shout, earth and heaven!
This sum of good to man:
Whose nature then took wing,
and mounted with him from the tomb.
Then, then, then I rose,
then I rose,
then first humanity triumphant passed the crystal ports of light,
and seized eternal youth. 
Man, all immortal hail, hail,
Heaven, all lavish of strange gifts to man,
Thine's all the glory, man's the boundless bliss.

Text Authorship:

  • by Edward Young (1683 - 1765) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
  • by William Billings (1746 - 1800) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by William Billings (1746 - 1800), "Easter Anthem" [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Ross Klatte

This text was added to the website: 2026-03-28
Line count: 21
Word count: 124

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