Title: Hail thee, festival day

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Hail thee, festival day 
Refrain: Hail thee, festival day! Blest day that art hallowed forever; day wherein Christ arose, breaking the kingdom of death. 
Lo, the fair beauty of earth, from the death of the winter arising, every good gift of the year now with its Master returns. 
Refrain: Hail thee, festival day! Blest day that art hallowed forever; day wherein Christ arose, breaking the kingdom of death. 
He who was nailed to the Cross is God and the Ruler of all things; all things created on earth worship the Maker of all. 
Refrain: Hail thee, festival day! Blest day that art hallowed forever; day wherein Christ arose, breaking the kingdom of death. 
God of all pity and power, let thy word be assured to the doubted; light on the third day returns: rise, Son of God, from the tomb! 
Refrain: Hail thee, festival day! Blest day that art hallowed forever; day wherein Christ arose, breaking the kingdom of death. 
Ill doth it seem that thy limbs should linger in lowly dishonor; ransom and price of the world, veiled from the vision of men. 
Refrain: Hail thee, festival day! Blest day that art hallowed forever; day wherein Christ arose, breaking the kingdom of death. 
Loosen, O Lord, the enchained, the spirits imprisoned in darkness; rescue, recall into life those who are rushing to death. 
Refrain: Hail thee, festival day! Blest day that art hallowed forever; day wherein Christ arose, breaking the kingdom of death. 
Ill it beseemeth that thou, by whose hand all things are encompassed, captive and bound shouldst remain, deep in the gloom of the rock. 
Refrain: Hail thee, festival day! Blest day that art hallowed forever; day wherein Christ arose, 
breaking the kingdom of death. 
Rise now, O Lord, from the grave and cast off the shroud that enwrapped thee; thou art sufficient for us; nothing without thee exists. 
Refrain: Hail thee, festival day! Blest day that art hallowed forever; day wherein Christ arose, breaking the kingdom of death. 
Mourning they laid thee to rest, who art Author of life and creation; treading the pathway of death, life thou bestowedst on man. 
Refrain: Hail thee, festival day! Blest day that art hallowed forever; day wherein Christ arose, breaking the kingdom of death. 
Show us thy face once more, that the ages may joy in thy brightness; give us the light of day, darkened on earth at thy death. 
Refrain: Hail thee, festival day! Blest day that art hallowed forever; day wherein Christ arose, breaking the kingdom of death. 
Out of the prison of death thou art rescuing numberless captives; freely they tread in the way whither their Maker has gone. 
Refrain: Hail thee, festival day! Blest day that art hallowed forever; day wherein Christ arose, breaking the kingdom of death. 
Jesus has harrowed hell; he had led captivity captive; darkness and chaos and death flee from the face of the light. 
Refrain: Hail thee, festival day! Blest day that art hallowed forever; day wherein Christ arose, breaking the kingdom of death.