On the resurrection morning (Samuel Sebastian Wesley)

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• (Posted 2016-11-24)  CPDL #42027:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2016-11-24).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 29 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

• (Posted 2007-11-14)  CPDL #15417:         

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2007-11-14).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 20 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: From the Cyber Hymnal.

General Information

Title: On the resurrection morning
Composer: Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Tune: Hornsey
Lyricist: Sabine Baring-Gould

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 87. 83

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard

First published: 1872 in The European psalmist, no. 611, p. 488
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English text

1  On the Resurrection morning  Soul and body meet again;  No more sorrow, no more weeping,  No more pain! 2  Here awhile they must be parted,  And the flesh its Sabbath keep,  Waiting in a holy stillness,  Wrapt in sleep. 3  For a while the wearied body  Lies with feet toward the morn;  Till the last and brightest Easter  Day be born.

4  But the soul in contemplation  Utters earnest prayer and strong,  Bursting at the Resurrection  Into song. 5  Soul and body reunited  Thenceforth nothing shall divide,  Waking up to Christ's own likeness,  Satisfied. 6  O the beauty, O the gladness Of that Resurrection day, Which shall not through endless ages Pass away.

7  On that happy Easter morning  All the graves their dead restore;  Father, sister, child, and mother  Meet once more. 8  To that brightest of all meetings  Bring us, Jesu Christ, at last,  By thy Cross, through death and judgement,  Holding fast.