On the resurrection morning (Samuel Sebastian Wesley)

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Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2009-12-26).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 19 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: On the resurrection morning
Composer: Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Tune: Hornsey
Lyricist: Sabine Baring-Gould

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 87. 83

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella or Keyboard
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Original text and translations

English text

1. On the Resurrection morning
  Soul and body meet again;
  No more sorrow, no more weeping,
  No more pain!

2. Here awhile they must be parted,
  And the flesh its Sabbath keep,
  Waiting in a holy stillness,
  Wrapt in sleep.

3. For a while the wearied body
  Lies with feet toward the morn;
  Till the last and brightest Easter
  Day be born.

4. But the soul in contemplation
  Utters earnest prayer and strong,
  Bursting at the Resurrection
  Into song.

5. Soul and body reunited
  Thenceforth nothing shall divide,
  Waking up to Christ's own likeness,
  Satisfied.

6. O the beauty, O the gladness
Of that Resurrection day,
Which shall not through endless ages
Pass away.

7. On that happy Easter morning
  All the graves their dead restore;
  Father, sister, child, and mother
  Meet once more.

8. To that brightest of all meetings
  Bring us, Jesu Christ, at last,
  By thy Cross, through death and judgement,
  Holding fast.