{"slug": "christ-the-lord-is-risen-today", "title": "Christ the Lord Is Risen Today", "first_line": "Christ the Lord is risen today, Sons of men and angels say", "author": "charles-wesley", "author_date": "1739", "foot": "trochaic", "meter": {"pattern": [7, 7, 7, 7], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Angels", "Atonement", "Blood", "Cross", "Easter", "Eternal Life", "God, As King", "God, Majesty & Power of", "Gospel", "Jesus", "Joy", "Praise, Son", "Salvation", "Victory"], "scripture": ["Matthew 28:5-6", "Luke 24:4-7", "1 Corinthians 15:55-57", "1 Peter 1:18-21", "Revelation 5:9-13"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "oh-source-1931", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Open Hymnal X:107 (line 12026); Words Charles Wesley 1739 (stanzas 1-5); all text components pre-1931.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "\"Christ, the Lord, is risen to -- day!\" Sons of men and an -- gels say, Raise your joys and tri -- umphs high, Sing, ye heavens, and earth, re -- ply!", "prose": ["\"Christ, the Lord, is risen today!\"", "Sons of men and angels say,", "Raise your joys and triumphs high,", "Sing, ye heavens, and earth, reply!"]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Love's re -- deem -- ing work is done, Fought the fight, the ba -- ttle won, Lo! the Sun's ec -- lipse is o'er, Lo! He sets in blood no more.", "prose": ["Love's redeeming work is done,", "Fought the fight, the battle won,", "Lo! the Sun's eclipse is o'er,", "Lo! He sets in blood no more."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Vain the stone, the watch, the seal, Christ hath burst the gates of hell! Death in vain for -- bids His rise, Christ hath o -- pened par -- a -- dise!", "prose": ["Vain the stone, the watch, the seal,", "Christ hath burst the gates of hell!", "Death in vain forbids His rise,", "Christ hath opened paradise!"]}, "4": {"syllabified": "Lives a -- gain our glor -- ious King Where, O death, is now thy sting? Once He died our souls to save, Where thy vic -- to -- ry, O grave?", "prose": ["Lives again our glorious King", "Where, O death, is now thy sting?", "Once He died our souls to save,", "Where thy victory, O grave?"]}, "5": {"syllabified": "Soar we now where Christ hath led Follow -- ing our ex -- al -- ted Head; Made like Him, like Him we rise, Ours the cross, the grave, the skies.", "prose": ["Soar we now where Christ hath led", "Following our exalted Head;", "Made like Him, like Him we rise,", "Ours the cross, the grave, the skies."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}