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Poems (Toke)/Easter hymn

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4623787Poems — Easter hymnEmma Toke
EASTER HYMN.
FOR A LITTLE CHILD.
THE joyful day at last is come,When Jesus rose again,And burst from out the rocky tombWhere He three days had lain.
They set a watch and sealed the stone,But at the dawn of dayAn angel of the Lord came down,And rolled that stone away;
And bid the women weeping thereCome see where He had lain,And to His friends with haste declareThat Jesus lived again.
O Saviour! grant that while we live,To sin we all may die;So Thou to us new life shall give,When we in death shall lie.
E.

April 16, 1843.