ON THE RESURRECTION MORNING
"The dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in
the air." 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
Words: Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924).
Music: "Resurrection Morn," Ira David Sankey (1840-1908).
On the resurrection morning,
Soul and body meet again,
No more sorrow, no more weeping,
No more pain.
Here awhile they must be parted,
And the flesh its Sabbath keep,
Waiting in a holy stillness,
Wrapped in sleep.
For a space the tirèd body
Waits in peace the morning's dawn
When there breaks the last and brightest
Easter morn.
On that happy Easter morning
All the graves their dead restore,
Father, mother, sister, brother,
Meet once more.
Soul and body, reunited,
Henceforth nothing shall divide,
Waking up in Christ's own likeness,
Satisfied.