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Text:Christ the Lord is risen again!
Author:Michael Weisse, 1488-1534
Translator:Catherine Winkworth, 1827-1878
Tune:WÜRTEMBERG

166. Christ the Lord is risen again!

1 Christ the Lord is risen again!
Christ hath broken every chain!
Hark! Angelic voices cry,
singing evermore on high,
alleluia!

2 He who gave for us his life,
who for us endured the strife,
is our Paschal Lamb today;
we too sing for joy, and say
alleluia!

3 He who bore all pain and loss
comfortless upon the cross,
lives in glory now on high,
pleads for us, and hears our cry:
alleluia!

*4 He whose path no records tell,
who descended into hell,
who the strong man armed hath bound,
now in highest heaven is crowned.
Alleluia!

5 He who slumbered in the grave
is exalted now to save;
now through Christendom it rings
that the Lamb is King of kings.
Alleluia!

6 Now he bids us tell abroad
how the lost may be restored,
how the penitent forgiven,
how we too may enter heaven.
Alleluia!

7 Thou, our Paschal Lamb indeed,
Christ, thy ransomed people feed;
take our sins and guilt away:
let us sing by night and day
Alleluia!

Text Information
First Line: Christ the Lord is risen again!
German Title: Christus ist erstnden
Author: Michael Weisse, 1488-1534
Translator: Catherine Winkworth, 1827-1878 (alt.)
Meter: 7.7.7.7.4
Language: English
Publication Date: 2010
Topic: Hymns for the Church Year: Easter
Tune Information
Name: WÜRTEMBERG
Meter: 7.7.7.7.4
Key: E♭ Major
Source: Hunder Arien, Dresden, 1694



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