Text:Welcome, Easter Day
Author:Alice J. Cleator
Tune:[Rifts of blue are gleaming]
Composer:Joseph Lincoln Hall
Media:MIDI file

13536. Welcome, Easter Day

1 Rifts of blue are gleaming
Through the clouds of gray,
Streams again are hastening
On their seaward way;
Silence turns to singing,
Gloom is swept away;
Welcome, happy Easter!
Welcome, Easter Day!

Refrain:
Easter, Easter,
Day of life and light!
All things with rejoicing
Hail thy coming bright!
Easter, Easter,
With glad promise rife,
Telling out the story
Of a risen life!

2 ’Tis no time for sadness!
’Tis no time for gloom!
Nature’s world is radiant
In a robe of bloom!
Life and joy triumphant
Rise from sorrow’s tomb!
Welcome, happy Easter!
Welcome, Easter Day! [Refrain]

3 Join in glad rejoicing!
Dark despair has flown!
Death is captive taken!
Hail the Risen One!
Silence reigns no longer!
Joy is on the throne!
Welcome, happy Easter!
Welcome, Easter Day! [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: Rifts of blue are gleaming
Title: Welcome, Easter Day
Author: Alice J. Cleator (1903)
Refrain First Line: Easter, Easter
Language: English
Source: The Voice of Praise by J. Lincoln Hall, C. Austin Miles and Irvin H. Mack (Philadelphia: Hall-Mack, 1904)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: [Rifts of blue are gleaming]
Composer: Joseph Lincoln Hall
Key: B♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



Media
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MIDI file: MIDI
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