Listen to our humble cry, Hear our solemn litany !

5 By thy deep expiring groan;
By the sealed sepulchral stone;
By the vault whose dark abode
Held in vain the rising God,
O from earth to heaven restored,
Mighty God, ascended Lord,
Listen, listen to the cry
Of our solemn litany!

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WHEN our heads are bowed with woe, When our bitter tears o'erflow, When we mourn the lost, the dear, Jesu, Son of David, hear.

2 When the heart is sad within
With the thought of all its sin,
When the spirit shrinks with fear,
Jesu, Son of David, hear.

3 Thou our throbbing flesh hast worn,
Thou our mortal griefs hast borne,
Thou hast shed the human tear;
Jesu, Son of David, hear.

4 Thou hast bowed the dying head,
Thou the blood of life hast shed,
Thou hast filled a mortal bier;
Jesu, Son of David, hear.

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And shout him welcome to the skies! Break off your tears, ye saints, and tell How high your great Deliverer reigns;

Sing how he spoiled the hosts of hell,
And led the monster death in chains.
Say, "Live for ever, wondrous King!
Born to redeem, and strong to save!"
Then ask the monster, "Where's thy
sting?"
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And, "Where's thy victory, boasting

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humble souls, that seek the Lord, Chase all your fears away;

And bow with rapture down to see
The place where Jesus lay.

2 Thus low the Lord of life was brought;
Such wonders love can do:
Thus cold in death that bosom lay,
Which throbbed and bled for you.

3 But raise your eyes, and tune your songs,

The Saviour lives again :

Not all the bolts and bars of death
The Conqueror could detain.

4 High o'er the angelic bands he rears
His once dishonoured head;
And through unnumbered years he
reigns,
Who dwelt among the dead.

For our God hath showed his grace, 6
And his sun hath risen on all,
And our hearts rejoice to see
Sin and night before him flee.
Hallelujah!

Now once more Eden's door

Open stands to mortal eyes; For Christ hath risen, and man shall rise!

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To dwell with Christ is better life.
Where our banner leads us,
We may safely go:
Where our Chief precedes us,
We may face the foe.

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His right arm is o'er us,
He our guide will be:
Christ hath gone before us,
Christians, follow ye!

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CHRIST, the Lord, is risen to-day," Sons of men and angels say! Raise your joys and triumphs high: Sing, ye heavens; thou earth, reply. 2 Love's redeeming work is done;

Fought the fight, the battle won: Lo! the sun's eclipse is o'er, Lo! he sets in blood no more! 3 Vain the stone, the watch, the seal, Christ hath burst the gates of hell: Death in vain forbids his rise, Christ hath opened Paradise. 4 Lives again our glorious King! Where, O death, is now thy sting? Once he died our souls to save; Where's thy victory, boasting grave? 5 Soar we now where Christ hath led, Following our exalted Head:

Made like him, like him we rise,
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies.
6 King of glory! Soul of bliss!
Everlasting life is this,

Thee to know, thy power to prove,
Thus to sing, and thus to love.

2 By thy own right hand of power
Thou hast exalted him,
Sent the mighty Conqueror
Thy people to redeem :

King of saints, and Prince of peace,
Him thou hast for sinners given,
Sinners from their sins to bless,
And lift them up to heaven.

3 Father, God, to us impart
The gift unspeakable;
Now in every waiting heart
Thy glorious Son reveal:
Quickened with our living Lord,
Let us in thy Spirit rise,
Rise to all thy life restored,
And bless thee in the skies.

7 s. On the Ascension of Christ. 718 1 HAIL the day that sees him rise, Ravished from our wishful eyes! Christ, awhile to mortals given, Reascends his native heaven.

2 There the pompous triumph waits: "Lift your heads, eternal gates; Wide unfold the radiant scene; Take the King of glory in !"

8 Circled round with angel-powers,
Their triumphant Lord, and ours,
Conqueror over death and sin;
"Take the King of glory in!"

4 Him though highest heaven receives,
Still he loves the earth he leaves;
Though returning to his throne,
Still he calls mankind his own.
5 See, he lifts his hands above!
See, he shows the prints of love!
Hark, his gracious lips bestow
Blessings on his church below!
6 Still for us his death he pleads;
Prevalent he intercedes;
Near himself prepares our place,
Harbinger of human race.

7 Master, (will we ever say)
Taken from our head to-day;
See thy faithful servants, see,
Ever gazing up to thee.

8 Grant, though parted from our sight,
High above yon azure height,
Grant our hearts may thither rise,
Following thee beyond the skies.
9 Ever upward let us move,
Wafted on the wings of love;
Looking when our Lord shall come,
Longing, gasping after home.

10 There we shall with thee remain,
Partners of thy endless reign;
There thy face unclouded see,
Find our heaven of heavens in thee.

GOD is gone up on high,

With a triumphant noise;
The clarions of the sky

Proclaim the angelic joys!

Join all on earth, rejoice and sing; Glory ascribe to glory's King.

2 God in the flesh below,

For us he reigns above:
Let all the nations know

Our Jesu's conquering love! Join all on earth, rejoice and sing; Glory ascribe to glory's King.

3 All power to our great Lord Is by the Father given; By angel-hosts adored,

He reigns supreme in heaven: Join all on earth, rejoice and sing; Glory ascribe to glory's King.

4 High on his holy seat

He bears the righteous sway; His foes beneath his feet

Shall sink and die away:
Join all on earth, rejoice and sing;
Glory ascribe to glory's King.

5 His foes and ours are one,
Satan, the world, and sin;
But he shall tread them down,
And bring his kingdom in :
Join all on earth, rejoice and sing
Glory ascribe to glory's King.

6 Till all the earth, renewed
In righteousness divine,
With all the hosts of God

In one great chorus join, Join all on earth, rejoice and sing; Glory ascribe to glory's King.

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SEE the Conqueror mounts in triumph,
See the King in royal state
Riding on the clouds his chariot
To his heavenly palace gate;
Hark, the choirs of angel-voices
Joyful hallelujahs sing,
And the portals high are lifted

To receive their heavenly King.

2 Who is this that comes in glory,
With the trump of jubilee?
Lord of battles, God of armies,
He has gained the victory;
He who on the cross did suffer,
He who from the grave arose,
He has vanquished sin and Satan,
He by death has spoiled his foes.

3 While he lifts his hands in blessing,

He is parted from his friends;
While their eager eyes behold him,
He upon the clouds ascends;
He who walked with God, and pleased
him,

Preaching truth and doom to come,
He, our Enoch, is translated

To his everlasting home.

4 Now our heavenly Aaron enters, With his blood, within the veil; Joshua now is come to Canaan,

And the kings before him quail; Now he plants the tribes of Israel In their promised resting-place; Now our great Elijah offers

Double portion of his grace.

5 He has raised our human nature In the clouds to God's right hand; There we sit in heavenly places,

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There with him in glory stand: Jesus reigns, adored by angels; Man with God is on the throne; Mighty Lord, in thine ascension We by faith behold our own.

HOLY Ghost, Illuminator,

Shed thy beams upon our eyes, Help us to look up with Stephen, And to see, beyond the skies, Where the Son of man in glory Standing is at God's right hand, Beckoning on his martyr army, Succouring his faithful band';

7 See him, who is gone before us

Heavenly mansions to prepare, See him, who is ever pleading

For us with prevailing prayer, See him, who with sound of trumpet And with his angelic train, Summoning the world to judgment, On the clouds will come again.

8 Raise us up from earth to heaven, Give us wings of faith and love, Gales of holy aspirations

Wafting us to realms above; That, with hearts and minds uplifted We with Christ our Lord may dwell Where he sits enthroned in glory In his heavenly citadel.

9 So at last, when he appeareth,

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We from out our graves may spring,
With our youth renewed like eagles,
Flocking round our heavenly King,
Caught up on the clouds of heaven,
And may meet him in the air,
Rise to realms where he is reigning,
And may reign for ever there.
The following Doxology may be sung at the
end of either part.

Glory be to God the Father;
Glory be to God the Son,
Dying, risen, ascending for us,
Who the heavenly realm has won;
Glory to the Holy Spirit;

To One God in Persons Three
Glory both in earth and heaven,
Glory, endless glory be. Amen.

Your Saviour on the cross hath bled:
Your God, in Jesus reconciled,
On all his works again hath smiled;
Hath grace through him and blessing
given,

To all in earth and all in heaven.

2 Angels rejoice in Jesu's grace,

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And vie with man's more favoured

race;

The blood that did for us atone, Conferred on them some gift unknown;

Their joy through Jesu's pains abounds, They triumph by his glorious wounds

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