Lives again our glorious King;
Where, O Death! is now thy sting?
Once He died our souls to save;
Where thy victory, O Grave?

Soar we now where Christ has led,
Following our exalted Head;

Made like Him, like Him we rise;
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies.

What though once we perished all,
Partners in our parents' fall?
Second life we all receive,
In our Heavenly Adam live.1

Risen with Him, we upward move:
Still we seek the things above;
Still pursue and kiss the Son,
Seated on His Father's throne.

Scarce on earth a thought bestow,
Dead to all we leave below;
Heaven our aim and loved abode,
Hid our life with Christ in God:

Hid, till Christ our life appear
Glorious in His members here;

1 Smoother:

"Second life we now receive,

And in Christ for ever live."

JESUS LIVES, AND SO SHALL I.

Joined to Him, we then shall shine,
All immortal, all divine.

Hail the Lord of earth and heaven!
Praise to Thee by both be given!
Thee we greet triumphant now!
Hail, the Resurrection Thou!

King of glory, Soul of bliss!
Everlasting life is this,

Thee to know, Thy power to prove,
Thus to sing, and thus to love!

JESUS LIVES, AND SO SHALL I.

(Jesus lebt, mit Ihm auch ich.)

From the German of CHR. FURCHTEGOTT Gellert, 1757.

275

Another English

translation, by Frances ELIZABETH Cox, commencing, "Jesus lives! no longer now Can thy terrors, Death, appall me.'

"

[ESUS lives, and so shall I :

JESU

Death, thy sting is gone for ever:

He who deigned for me to die,
Lives, the bands of death to sever.
He shall raise me with the just:
Jesus is my Hope and Trust.

Jesus lives, and reigns supreme;
And, His kingdom still remaining.
I shall also be with Him.

Ever living, ever reigning.
God has promised; be it must:
Jesus is my Hope and Trust.

Jesus lives, and God extends
Grace to each returning sinner;
Rebels He receives as friends,
And exalts to highest honor.
God is true as He is just:
Jesus is my Hope and Trust.

Jesus lives, and by His grace,
Victory o'er my passions giving,
I will cleanse my heart and ways,
Ever to His glory living.

Th' weak He raises from the dust:
Jesus is my Hope and Trust.

Jesus lives, and I am sure

Naught shall e'er from Jesus sever:
Satan's wiles and Satan's power,
Pain or pleasure, ye shall never!
Christian armor cannot rust:
Jesus is my Hope and Trust.

Jesus lives, and death is now
But my entrance into glory.
Courage then, my soul, for thou
Hast a crown of life before thee;
Thou shalt find thy hopes were just:
Jesus is the Christian's Trust.

I SAY TO ALL MEN, FAR AND NEAR.

277

I SAY TO ALL MEN, FAR AND NEAR.

(Ich sag es jedem, dass Er lebt.)

From the German of FRIED. VON HARDENBERG, better known under the name of NOVALIS, d. 1801. Translated by C. WINKWORTH.

I

SAY to all men, far and near,

That He is risen again;

That He is with us now and here,
And ever shall remain.

And what I say, let each this morn
Go tell it to his friend,

That soon in every place shall dawn
His kingdom without end.

Now first to souls who thus awake
Seems earth a fatherland:

A new and endless life they take
With rapture from His hand.

The fears of death and of the grave
Are whelmed beneath the sea,

And every heart now light and brave
May face the things to be.

The way of darkness that He trod
To heaven at last shall come,

And he who hearkens to His word
Shall reach His Father's home.

Now let the mourner grieve no more,
Though his beloved sleep;
A happier meeting shall restore
Their light to eyes that weep.

Now every heart each noble deed
With new resolve may dare:
A glorious harvest shall the seed
In happier regions bear.

He lives: His presence hath not ceased, Though foes and fears be rife;

And thus we hail in Easter's feast

A world renewed to life!