1 Sing ye lowly, sing ye great,
With the Easter joy elate!
Christ the Lord is risen indeed;
Crown of hope for every need!
2 Poverty and wealth akin
In the piteous bond of sin,
Eager youth and anxious age
Bound on common pilgrimage;
3 One and all uplift the strain;
Christ our Savior lives again
Lives to set us free once more;
As we journey goes before.
4 All the way He maketh bright,
It was dark, but He is light;
It was weary, He is rest;
He our end as He our quest.
5 Wandering sinner, striving saint,
Prisoner hopeless of complaint,
Courage kindles now anew;
Christ the Lord is ris’n for you.
6 Lift your head, poor penitent,
Mercy is with judgment blent;
Christ is risen to bestow
Just the peace you long to know.
7 Mourner weeping at the tomb,
See how e’en the grave may bloom;
Where He lay what hopes were sown!
Make the harvest sweet your own.
8 For us men a man was He;
Never friend so close could be;
For us, helpless, He o’ercame;
We may conquer in His name.
9 For us mortal He divine,
Makes the way immortal shine;
With the Comforter bestows
Grace no life unquickened knows.
10 Death His flesh could not constrain;
Lord of Life He rose again;
God of God and Light of Light,
Sing His triumph, sing His might!
Source: The Cyber Hymnal #15152
Kimball, Harriet McEwan, a native and resident of Portsmouth, Newhaven, is the author of Hymns, Boston, 1866; Swallow Flights of Song, 1874, &c. Her hymns include:—
1. At times on Tabor's height. Faith and Joy
2. Dear Lord, to Thee alone. Lent.
3. It is an easy thing to say. Humble Service.
4. We have no tears Thou wilt not dry. Affliction. Appeared in the Poets of Portsmouth, 1864, and the Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, and others. In Miss Kimball's Hymns, 1866, this hymn begins with stanza iii. of "Jesus the Ladder of my faith."
Several of Miss Kimball's poems were included in Baynes's Illustrated Book of Sacred Poems, 1867. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
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