Easter Day

Words cannot utter Christ His returning: Mankind, keep jubilee, Strip off your mourning, Crown you with garlands, Set your lamps burning.

Speech is left speechless; Set you to singing, Fling your hearts open wide, Set your bells ringing: Christ the Chief Reaper Comes, His sheaf bringing.

Earth wakes her song-birds, Puts on her flowers, Leads out her lambkins, Builds up her bowers: This is man’s spousal day, Christ’s day and ours.