Easter Anthem (William Billings)
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General Information
Title: Easter Anthem
Composer: William Billings
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthems
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Sacred Harp, 3rd ed. (1860)
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Original text and translations
text arranged from Edward Young's "The Complaint", or "Night Thoughts", "Night Four", 1741-44
English text
The Lord is ris'n indeed,
Hallelujah.
Now is Christ risen from the dead,
and become the first fruits of them that slept.
Hallelujah.
And did He rise?
Hear, O ye nations, hear it, O ye dead.
He rose, He burst the bars of death,
He burst the bars of death and triumph'd o'er the grave.
Then I rose,
then first humanity triumphant passed the crystal ports of light,
and seiz'd eternal youth.
Man, all immortal hail, hail,
Heaven, all lavish of strange gifts to man,
Thine's all the glory, man's the boundless bliss.
