Classic Poem

Come, sing with holy gladness,
High alleluiahs sing!
Lift up your hearts and voices
With new awakened Spring.
Sing, youths and gentle maidens,
Your hymn of praise to-day,
With old men and with children,
In sweet according lay.

The time of Resurrection,
Earth sings it all abroad,—
The Passover of gladness,
The Passover of God!
The sign of life eternal
Is writ on earth and sky,—
The hope forever vernal,
Of life the victory.

Now let the heavens be joyful,
The seas their bright waves swell;
Let the round world keep triumph,
With all that therein dwell!
Now let the seen and unseen
In one glad anthem blend;
Let all our hearts be risen
To life that hath no end!