1 Welcome, happy morning! age to age shall say:
hell today is conquered, heaven is won today.
Come then, true and faithful, now fulfill your word;
this is your third morning: rise, O buried Lord!

2 Earth with joyful welcome clothes herself for spring;
greets with life reviving here returning King;
flowers in every pasture, leaves on every bough,
speak of sorrows ended; Jesus triumphs now!

3 Author and sustainer, source of life and breath;
you for our salvation trod the path of death;
Jesus Christ is living, God forevermore!
Now let all creation hail him and adore.

4 Loose our souls imprisoned, bound with Satan's chain;
all that now is fallen, raise to life again!
Show your face in brightness, shine the whole world through;
hope retuns with daybreak, life returns with you.