THIS JOYFUL EASTERTIDE

This joyful Eastertide,
What need is there for grieving?
Cast all your cares aside
And be not unbelieving:

Chorus:
Come, share our Easter joy
that death could not imprison,
Nor any power destroy
our Christ, who is arisen!

No work for him is vain,
No faith in him mistaken,
For Easter makes it plain
His Kingdom is not Shaken:
Chorus

Then put your trust in Christ,
In waking and in sleeping,
His grace on earth sufficed;
He'll never quit his keeping:
Chorus