Awake thou that sleepest! Arise
From those who in trespass are dead.
Lift up to the heavens thine eyes
From whence the light living is shed.
Arise, for the light has appeared,
The light of which prophets have dreamed,
Mid the darkness oppressive and weird
That had almost omnipotent seemed.
The light of the Father unseen,
The heart of invisible God,
The life-giving glorious sheen
By the Son of His love shed abroad.
Then arise! Let the darkness and dole
Be dispelled from that cold heart of thine;
Let the glory break bright on thy soul
By the might of the Spirit divine.
Thou hast nothing to do with the dead,
With the world, with its dissolute trend,
Its plans and its politics red
With the blood of thy Saviour and Friend.
It has been by man
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