Resurrection Song

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1 Sing with all the saints in glory;
sing the resurrection song!
Death and sorrow, earth’s dark story,
to the former days belong.
All around the clouds are breaking;
soon the storms of time shall cease.
In God’s likeness we, awaking,
know the everlasting peace.

2 O what glory, far exceeding
all that eye has yet perceived!
Holy hearts, for ages pleading,
never that full joy conceived.
God has promised, Christ prepares it,
there on high our welcome waits;
ev’ry humble spirit shares it;
Christ has passed th’eternal gates.

3 Life eternal! heav’n rejoices:
Jesus lives, who once was dead!
Join we now the deathless voices;
child of God, lift up your head!
Patriarchs from distant ages,
saints all longing for their heav'n,
prophets, psalmists, seers, and sages—
all await the glory giv'n.

4 Life eternal! O what wonders
crowd on faith; what joy unknown,
when amid earth's closing thunders,
saints shall stand before the throne!
O to enter that bright portal,
see that glowing firmament;
know, with Thee, O God immortal,
Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent!

Source: Our Great Redeemer's Praise #258

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Author: William J. Irons

Irons, William Josiah, D.D., son of Joseph Irons, was born at Hoddesdon, Herts, Sep. 12, 1812, and educated at Queen's College, Oxford (B.A. 1833, D.D. 1854), and took Holy Orders 1835. In 1837 he became Incumbent of St. Peter's, Walworth, and was subsequently Vicar of Barkway, Incumbent of Brompton, Rector of Wadingham; and in 1872, Rector of St. Mary-Woolnoth, formerly held by his father's friend, John Newton. He was also Bampton Lecturer in 1870, and Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral. He died June 18, 1883. Dr. Irons took a somewhat prominent part in the ecclesiastical controversies of his day, and published extensively thereon in the form of Sermons, Letters, Pamphlets, &c. His important work, the Bampton Lectures, 1870, was on Christi… Go to person page >

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First Line: Sing, with all the sons of glory
Title: Resurrection Song
Author: William J. Irons (1873)
Meter: 8.7.8.7 D
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
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