Christ the Lord is risen today,\nChristians, haste your vows to pay;\nOffer ye your praises meet\nAt the Paschal victim’s feet;\nFor the sheep the Lamb hath bled,\n68\nSinless in the sinner’s stead.\nChrist the Lord is ris’n on high;\nNow he lives, no more to die.\n2. Christ, the victim undefil’d,\nMan to God hath reconcil’d,\nWhen in strange and awful strife\nMet together death and life;\nChristians, on this happy day\nHast with joy your wows to pay.\nChrist the Lord is ris’n on high;\nNow he lives, no more to die.\n3. Say, O wond’ring Mary, say,\nWhat thou sawest on thy way,\n“I beheld, where Christ had lain,\nEmpty tomb and angels twain;\nI beheld the glory bright\nOf the rising Lord of light:\nChrist my hope is ris’n again;\nNow he lives, and lives to reign.”\n4. Christ, who once for sinners bled,\nNow the first-born from the dead,\nThron’d in endless might and power,\nLives and reigns for evermore.\nHail, eternal hope on high!\nHail, thou King of victory!\nHail, thou Prince of life ador’d!\nHelp us save us, gracious Lord.