LYRICS
| Meter: |
| Writer(s): | Grant Colfax Tullar
| Transl/Adapt: |
| Dates: | 1903
| Bible Refs: | Ps 30:5
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MUSIC
| Name: | JOY DISPELS OUR SORROW
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| | Writer(s): | Joseph W. Lerman
| | Dates: | 1903
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| 1. Morning light was dawning
o’er the distant hills,
Banished was the midnight gloom;
Silently the angels
clad in bright array
Came to guard the
dear Redeemer’s tomb.
Soldiers were affrighted
and in terror fled,
While the angels roll the stone away.
Then with joy proclaiming,
“Christ the Lord is ris’n”
“See the place where
once the Savior lay.”
Refrain.
Joy dispels our sorrow—
pleasures banish pain—
Earth awakes from winter’s gloom;
Easter anthems ringing
tell the joyful news
“Christ is risen from the tomb.”
2. Loving ones who sought Him
at the break of day,
Found the angels waiting there;
Joy dispelled their sorrow—
fear gave way to faith—
Hope succeeded
all their deep despair.
For the angels told them,
“Jesus is not here,”
“But had surely risen as He said.”
Then with eager footsteps
joyfully they tell
How that Christ had
risen from the dead.
Refrain.
Joy dispels our sorrow—
pleasures banish pain—
Earth awakes from winter’s gloom;
Easter anthems ringing
tell the joyful news
“Christ is risen from the tomb.”
3. Easter tells its gladness
all the year around—
Happy birds their tribute bring;
Fragrant flowers blooming
after winter days
Speak to us the joys of coming spring.
Earthly pleasures vanish,
flowers soon shall fade,
But the joy of Easter shall endure.
Hope of resurrection
never shall grow dim
While the Word of God abideth sure.
Refrain.
Joy dispels our sorrow—
pleasures banish pain—
Earth awakes from winter’s gloom;
Easter anthems ringing
tell the joyful news
“Christ is risen from the tomb.”
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