In the Easter songs in CWB II I’ve done:
352 By Your Kingly Power, O Risen Lord (Outstanding)
353 Christ is Alive, With Joy We Sing (More Easter VULPIUS action)
This text is by Michael Weisse and translated by Catherine Winkworth. It is set to ORIENTIS PARTIBUS.
It is a French melody that I had some fun with after getting the chords from Together In Song:
The text is found in various iterations but this is the one in CWB II.
- Christ the Lord is risen again!
Christ has broken ev’ry chain!
Hark, the angels shout for joy
Singing evermore on high:
Alleluia! - He who gave for us His life.
Who for us endured the strife,
Is our Paschal Lamb today.
We, too, sing for joy and say:
Alleluia! - He who bore all pain and loss
Comfortless upon the cross
Lives in glory now on high,
Pleads for us and hears our cry:
Alleluia! - He who slumbered in the grave
Is exalted now to save;
Through the universe it rings
That the Lamb is King of kings.
Alleluia! - Now He bids us tell abroad
How the lost may be restored,
How the penitent forgiv’n,
How we, too, may enter heav’n.
Alleluia! - Christ, our Paschal Lamb indeed,
Christ, your ransomed people feed;
At the end of earthly strife Raise us, Lord, to endless life. Alleluia!
Here is the same tune used for a song about a donkey – I couldn’t resist – the Alleluia is replaced with “Hey sir donkey hey!”