On the Resurrection Morning

Sheet Music

Version from Hymns for Christian Worship, 1909 (no. 380)

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• Tune: Pearson
• Copyright: Public Domain
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Tunes

• Pearson, by Caryl Bullard Rich (b. 1865)
• Resurrection Morn, by Ira D. Sankey, cir­ca 1887
• Hornsey, by Sam­u­el S. Wes­ley, in the Eur­o­pe­an Psalm­ist, 1872
• Mansfield, by Ed­mund H. Tu­rpin, in Hymns An­cient and Mo­dern

Lyrics

• Poet: Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924), 1864
• Copyright: Public Domain

Lyrics from Hymns for Christian Worship, 1909 (no. 380)

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 space the tired body
Lies with feet toward the dawn,
Till there breaks the last and brightest
Easter morn.

4. But the soul in contemplation
Utters earnest prayer and strong;
Breaking at the resurrection
Into song.

5. Soul and body reunited,
Thenceforth nothing shall divide,
Waking up in 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, Jesus Christ, at last,
To thy cross, thro' death and judgment,
Holding fast.