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Composer
Craig Philliips
Text Mary Louise Bringle
Voicing SATB, organ
Topics Easter, Music, New Heaven & Earth, Resurrection
Church Season Easter
Length 3' 50" Price $3.00 (U.S.)
Released 6/25 Catalog no. 405.525
Difficulty Mod. difficult
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Description
This anthem uses festive and hopeful Easter text from Mary Louise Bringle. Phillips expertly bases the anthem loosely on Charles H.H. Parry's tune RUSTINGTON, making it somewhat familiar yet new for the congregation. The repeated triplet pattern propels the anthem forward to an exciting conclusion.
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Anthem text
Rise to sing! The light is breaking,
gleaming gift of day begun.
Hope now springs like blossoms waking,
op’ning to the rising sun.
Those who sow in pain and sorrow
with the dawn in joy shall reap.
God who governs each tomorrow
wipes all tears from those who weep.
Lovely shine the courts of heaven;
morning stars now brightly burn.
Christ arises like the leaven,
festal bread for hearts that yearn.
Death is swallowed up in victory.
Where is now your sting, O grave?
Earth, awake to radiant mystery:
Christ shall come again to save!
Hail the dawn of new creation!
Gone are suff'ring, grief, and sighs.
Glorious now the consummation.
Music soars to fill the skies:
organs piping, church bells chiming,
on this day, all earth shall ring,
in the grace of God's good timing,
with the saints, we rise to sing!
–Mary Louis Bringle, 2001
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