845    C.M.     J. Hart
The Resurrection. 1 Cor. 15. 36-44; Acts 24. 15

1 The praise of Christ, ye Christians, sound;
  His mighty acts be told;
  Death has received a deadly wound;
  He takes, but cannot hold.

2 [Clipped are the greedy vulture’s claws;
  No more we dread his power;
  He gapes with adamantine jaws,
  And grins, but can’t devour.]

3 Believers in their darksome graves
  Shall start, to light restored;
  Forsake their monumental caves,
  And mount to meet the Lord.

4 Not long in ground the dying grain
  Is hid, or lies forlorn;
  But soon revives, and springs again,
  And comes to standing corn.

5 So, waking from the womb of earth,
  Where Christ has lain before,
  And bursting to a better birth,
  We rise to die no more.

6 The wicked, too, shall rise again,
  The difference will be this:
  They rise to everlasting pain,
  And saints to endless bliss.