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He is Risen!

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Text by Cecil Frances Alexander
Music by Joachim Neander
Arranged by Sally DeFord
    This arrangement wins the award for easiest choral selection on the site. You could probably prepare it in half a practice. However, lest your pianist get bored, the accompaniment is rather(!) challenging. Watch the tempo. It's marked at 88bpm, and that's really about right. Those of you who like to take it at the high end of the 92-204 that the LDS hymnal specifies are going to have to adjust your internal metronomes (or brave the wrath of your accompanist) if you use this arrangement.

      Lyrics:
      He is risen! He is risen!
      Tell it out with joyful voice
      He has burst his three days prison
      Let the whole wide earth rejoice
      Death is conquered, man is free
      Christ has won the victory

      Come with high and holy hymning
      Chant our Lord's triumphant lay
      Not one darksome cloud is dimming
      Yonder glorious morning ray
      Breaking o'er the purple east
      Symbol of our Easter feast

      He is risen! He is risen!
      He hath opened heaven's gate
      We are free from sin's dark prison
      Risen to a holier state
      And a brighter Easter beam
      On our longing eyes shall stream