Classic Poem

1. O day of light and gladness Of prophecy and song,
2. Earth feels the season's joyance; From mountain range to sea,
What thoughts within us waken, What hallowed memories throng!
The tides of life are flowing, Fresh, manifold and free.
The soul's horizon widens, Past, present, future blend;
In valley and on upland, By forest pathways dim,
And rises on our vision The life that hath no end.
All nature lifts in chorus The resurrection hymn.

3. O Lord of life eternal,
To thee our hearts upraise
The Easter song of gladness,
The Passover of praise.
Thine are the many mansions,
The dead die not to thee,
Who fillest from thy fullness
Time and eternity.