Easter Paean
O King of Life Eternal!
O Victim Royal, Sublime
Who gives Thyself for Offering
And makes me wholly Thine
Accept even now our praises
Given to Thy holy Name
O Priest, O King Eternal
Oblation without blame
Who shone before all worlds
Took form or had their shape
The Light that lightest all men
Came down, didst manhood take
O Logos, Word Incarnate
Men’s hate could not Thee bind
(but) Cast off Death’s cold shackles
And mortality confined
Now reign, O Lord almighty
O Blessed One in Three
To the Trinity be Glory
As is forever meet
O Dayspring from on high
Shine on our soiled face
And now, from Thy Great Kindness
Bestow us with Thy Grace
Rev. Stephen E. Stults
Eastertide, 2009
(May be set to the tune of “O Sacred
Head, Sore Wounded”)
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