Browse

Love's redeeming work is done

(SAVANNAH. 7.7.7.7)
1.

Love's redeeming work is done;
fought the fight, the battle won:
lo, our Sun's eclipse is o'er,
lo, he sets in blood no more.

2.

Vain the stone, the watch, the seal;
Christ has burst the gates of hell;
death in vain forbids his rise;
Christ has opened paradise.

3.

Lives again our glorious King;
where, O death, is now thy sting?
Dying once, he all doth save;
where thy victory, O grave?

4.

Soar we now where Christ has led,
foll'wing our exalted Head;
made like him, like him we rise;
ours the cross, the grave, the skies.

5.

Hail the Lord of earth and heav'n!
praise to thee by both be giv'n:
thee we greet triumphant now;
hail, the Resurrection thou!

This hymn is in the public domain.

Text as printed in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New (2000).

View on Hymnary.org