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'Tis the spring of souls today
Christ hath burst His prison;
From the frost and gloom of death
Light and life have risen.
The nobler of the two hymns preserved to us, (or six stanzas of it) through eleven centuries is entitled “The Day of Resurrection.”
The day of resurrection,
Earth, tell its joys abroad:
The Passover of gladness,
The Passover of God.