hymn for Easter Week

Glory to God! The morn appointed breaks,

and earth awakes from all the woeful past;

For, with the morn, the Lord of life awakes,

and sin and death into the grave are cast.

Glory to God! The cross, with all its shame

now sheds its glory o'er a ransomed world;

For he who bore the burden of our blame,

with pierced hands the foe to hell has hurled.

Glory to God! Sing ransomed souls again,

and let your songs our glorious Victor laud,

who by his might has snapped the tyrant's chain,

and set us free to rise with him to God.

-   from Magnificat, April 2017