The Sun of Righteousness

Verse 1

The Sun of Righteousness appears To set in blood no more; Adore the Scatterer of your fears, Your rising Sun adore.

Verse 2

The saints, when He resigned His breath, Unclosed their sleeping eyes; He breaks again the bonds of death; Again the dead arise.

Verse 3

Alone the dreadful race He ran, Alone the wine-press trod; He dies and suffers as a man; He rises as a God.

Verse 4

In vain the stone, the watch, the seal Forbid an early rise To Him who breaks the gates of hell, And opens paradise.