Poems on Several Occasions by Samuel Wesley. The Second Edition, with Additions |
An Hymn on Easter-Day.
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An Hymn on Easter-Day.
I
The Sun of Righteousness appears,To set in Blood no more!
Adore the Healer of Your Fears,
Your rising Sun adore.
II
The Saints, when he resign'd his Breath,Unclos'd their sleeping Eyes;
He breaks again the Bonds of Death,
Again the Dead arise.
III
Alone the dreadful Race he ran,Alone the Wine-press trod,
He dy'd and suffer'd as a Man,
He rises as a God.
IV
In vain the Stone, the Watch, the Seal,Forbid an early Rise,
To him who breaks the Gates of Hell,
And opens Paradise.
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