1 "Welcome, happy morning!"
age to age shall say:
"Hell today is vanquished;
heav'n is won today!"
Lo, the dead is living,
God forevermore!
Him, their true Creator,
all his works adore.
Refrain:
"Welcome, happy morning!"
age to age shall say:
"Hell today is vanquished;
heav'n is won today!"
2 Maker and Redeemer,
life and health of all,
God from heav'n beholding
human nature's fall,
of the Father's Godhead
you, the only Son,
mankind to deliver
manhood did put on. [Refrain]
3 Source of all things living,
you came down to die,
plumbed the depths of hell
to raise us up on high.
Come, then, true and faithful,
come fulfill your word;
this is our third morning—
rise, O buried Lord. [Refrain]
Venantius Fortunatus
Tr. by John Ellerton
The Methodist Hymnal 1939 edition
<idle musing>
I don't recall ever singing this hymn. Interestingly, Frances Havergal wrote the tune they use in the Methodist hymnal. I didn't realize she wrote music; I thought she just wrote lyrics—and powerful ones, too!
Hymnary.org adds a fourth verse:
4 Free the souls long prisoned,
bound with Satan's chain;
all that now is fallen
raise to life again.
Show your face in brightness;
shine in ev'ry land
as in Eden's garden
when the world began. [Refrain]
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