Classic Poem

AN EASTER CAROL .

Bird and beast and creeping thing,
Trees and flowers and fountains,
Tell the plains of Christ the King,
Thunder back, ye mountains!
This is Nature's jubilee,
Let no discord vex it;
Sing, O winds and waters free,
Christus resurrexit!
Resurrexit non est hic,
Christus resurrexit!

Wrestling in the wilderness,
On the mountains praying,
Now He walks the wave to bless,
Terror's tempest staying.
Soul, this is thy day of light,
Let no doubt perplex it;
Lift thine eyes with rapture bright,
Christus resurrexit!

Past, the garden's bloody sweat;
Past, the bitter trial;
Jewish scoff and Gentile threat,
Peter's dark denial;
Calvary's cross and spear are done,
Death and hell perplexed;
Angels rolled away the stone,
Christus resurrexit!

Magdalen the tale hath proved,
Magdalen, the winner;
Seven ways sinning, sevenfold loved
Coming as a sinner.
Hear her voice Rabboni say —
Now no sorrow checks it;
Sinner, sing with her to-day,
Christus resurrexit!
Resurrexit non est hic,
Christus resurrexit!