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Text:Christ the Lord is Risen Today (Leeson)
Author:Anonymous
Translator (from Latin):Jane E. Leeson
Tune:ST. GEORGE'S WINDSOR
Composer:George Job Elvey
Media:MIDI file

847. Christ the Lord is Risen Today (Leeson)

1. Christ the Lord is risen today;
Christians, haste your vows to pay;
Offer ye your praises meet
At the Paschal Victim’s feet.
For the sheep the Lamb hath bled,
Sinless in the sinner’s stead;
Christ is risen, today we cry;
Now He lives no more to die.

2. Christ, the Victim undefiled,
Man to God hath reconciled;
Whilst in strange and awful strife
Met together Death and Life:
Christians, on this happy day
Haste with joy your vows to pay;
Christ is risen, today we cry;
Now He lives no more to die.

3. Christ, who once for sinners bled,
Now the first born from the dead,
Throned in endless might and power,
Lives and reigns forevermore.
Hail, eternal Hope on high!
Hail, Thou King of victory!
Hail, Thou Prince of life adored!
Help and save us, gracious Lord.

Text Information
First Line: Christ the Lord is risen today
Title: Christ the Lord is Risen Today (Leeson)
Latin Title: Victimae Paschali
Author: Anonymous (11th or 12th century)
Translator (from Latin): Jane E. Leeson
Meter: 77.77 D
Language: English
Source: Catholic Hymns, by Henry Formby, 1853
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: ST. GEORGE'S WINDSOR
Composer: George Job Elvey (1858)
Meter: 77.77 D
Incipit: 33531 23335 31233
Key: F Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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