Sleeper Awake

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Tell the story of the Risen

Author: William Croswell Doane
Tune: [Tell the story of the Risen]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 Tell the story of the Risen:
Joy from sorrow, peace from pain;
How the Master broke from prison,
Nevermore to die again.

Refrain:
Wakened is the heav’nly Sleeper:
Earth casts out her mighty dead;
Comforted each earthly weeper,
Lifted every mourner’s head.

2 Tell the story of the Living:
Life from death, from night the day;
This the manner of God’s giving;
So He deals with men, alway. [Refrain]

3 Tell the story of Passover;
Dry-shod through the deep, dark sea.
Christ, the Lord of all, and Lover,
Leads His hosts to victory. [Refrain]

4 Tell the story now of Easter,
Raise your voices high and sing;
Weeper, sleeper, faster, feaster,
Sursum Corda, Christ is King. [Refrain]

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16175

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Author: William Croswell Doane

Doane, William Croswell, D.D., son of Bp. G. W. Doane (p. 303, ii.), was born at Boston, Mass., March 2, 1832, and ordained D. 1853, and P. 1856, in the Prot. Episcopal Church of America. He was Rector of Burlington, N.J., Hartford, Conn, and Albany; and since 1869 Prot. Episco. Bishop of Albany. He is the author of a Biography of his father, and other works. His fugitive verse was collected and published [in 1902], as Rhymes from Time to Time. His hymn, "Ancient of Days, Who [that] sittest throned in glory" (Holy Trinity), was written for the Bicentenary of the City of Albany, 1886. In some collections it begins with stanza ii., "O Holy Father, Who hast led Thy children." For full text see The Hymnal, edition 1892, of the Prot. Episco. Chu… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Tell the story of the Risen
Title:	Sleeper Awake
Author:	William Croswell Doane
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Wakened is the Heavenly Sleeper
Copyright:	Public Domain