A HYMN for EASTER DAY
       Words in Henry Playford, The Divine Companion, 2d ed., 1707.
       Music by Joseph Stephenson, in The Sacred Harp, 1850, p. 273.

     If angels sung a saviour's birth,
       On that auspicious morn:
     We well may imitate their mirth,
       Now he again is born.

     Grieve not, vain man, who mortal art,
       That thou to earth must fall,
     It was his portion, 'twas the part
       Of him, who made us all.

     Himself he humbled to the grave,
       Made flesh, like us, to show;
     That we as certainly shall have
       A resurrection too.

     To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
       The God whom we adore;
     As in beginning, was, is now,
       And shall be evermore.