lyrics or other text: | to Dutch 17th c tune
(De Liefde Voortgebracht - Hoe groot de Vruechten zijn)
How great the harvest is
of him who came to save us!
The hearts of men are his,
our law the love he gave us.
The world lay cruel, blind,
nought holding, nought divining;
he came to human kind,
and now the light is shining, is shining.
also sung as "This joyful Eastertide":
This joyful Eastertide,
away with care and sorrow!
My Love, the Crucified,
hath sprung to life this morrow.
Had Christ, that once was slain,
ne'er burst his three-day prison,
our faith had been in vain;
but now is Christ arisen, arisen. |