Music@FPCLT | “Easter Anthem” | William Billings

“Easter Anthem” William Billings 04/09/2023 Easter Sunday First Presbyterian Church of Charlotte Sanctuary Choir The Lord is risen, indeed! Hallelujah! Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept. Hallelujah. And did he rise? Did he rise? Hear it, ye nations! Hear it, O ye dead! He rose; he burst the bars of death and triumphed o’er the grave. Then, I rose. Then, first humanity triumphant passed the crystal ports of light and seized eternal youth. Man all immortal, hail, heaven all lavish of strange gifts to man. Thine’s all the glory, man’s the boundless bliss.