He Is Risen!

Hymn No. 199 in the LDS Hymnal: "He Is Risen!"

Text: Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895
Music: Joachim Neander, 1650-1680

Tune Name: Neander

Scriptural References:

Mark 16:6-7 ...
6 And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.
7 But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.

Mosiah 16:7-9 ...
7 And if Christ had not risen from the dead, or have broken the bands of death that the grave should have no victory, and that death should have no sting, there could have been no resurrection.
8 But there is a resurrection, therefore the grave hath no victory, and the sting of death is swallowed up in Christ.
9 He is the light and the life of the world; yea, a light that is endless, that can never be darkened; yea, and also a life which is endless, that there can be no more death.

Introduction (full verse) and 3 verses:

Verse 1:
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.

Verse 2:
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.

Verse 3:
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.