Show S a st e v BY L if RAN DOLPH when caster easter downing first to light our earth reveals in ufe afe a new now and wondrous worth when wondering voices cried our lord Is risen immortal love now free froe from deaths draise prison all nature on that radiant easter mom song as of old when morning stara were bom and angel visions through the brightening year proclaimed the lord is ho he is 13 not here sacred because the place where christ had slept the tomb where faith ralth had watched and longed and wept we blest then all earthly path his feet had trod glorious for aye the highways of our cod god and every easter morn since that glad hour nature repeats how bronen bron en was deaths Death sl power and tells how glorious dawn camo the night and avows the only way to heavenly light throughout the world all in tho wan wa ening year recalling scenes we ehnow christ when here makes such familiar scenes scones with meaning fraught they breathe again the truths the saviour taught for when tho world a anew with fair and wafted fragrance lingers in n the air who has not thought christ knew the freshening field to hirn its lilies fair their incense yield and AndS since trice he majhed them in their splendor epi endor clad their royal beauty has made centuries glad when wayside trees spread shelters shalter 3 fair and green freen we WO say he HO passed through many a woodland scone acene oft were his sacred words Irn impressive made mads Re far wanderers some grateful shade when fields of waving wheat in whispers whIsper 3 low foretell tho the harvest later golden glow sed sned urrie and harvest both the voices say yielded their wisdom in the masters day from rugged mountain and the tho black hill side where straying lambs have wandered far and wide tho the shepherds cra sheltering arms have borno them fouret foul those barren heights are they not holy ground lifo life geving sunshiny sun shino and all rain forever mal knef heavens bounty plain in blessed truths christ gently of you we leamond o ir fathers Father 3 love unvarying true and when the winds come sweeping from tho sea their rushing filled with lifes great mystery I 1 hearing the sound thereof ohl ohi passing strange it telle from death t life tho the wondrous change through wave a and d tempest ohl ohi how dear doar the voice 0 storm swept desp despairing Wring still have faith rejoice once more ho bid bids the thes angry warring cease in accents mild now whispering calm and peace bright standards of the spring again unfurled and ani easter girds with glorious light tho the world tho the radiance falls on an paths that christ once trod and lifts our hearts from nature up to god Co cl |