And did He rise?—
Hear [the answer], O ye nations!
Hear it, O ye dead!
Then duet, trio and chorus sing it, successively—
He rose! He rose! He rose!
He burst the bars of death,
And triumphed o'er the grave!
The succeeding thirty-four bars—duet and chorus—take home the sacred gladness to the heart of humanity—
Then, then I rose,
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