{"slug": "christ-the-lord-is-risen-today-alleluias", "title": "Christ the Lord Is Risen Today", "first_line": "Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia!", "author": "charles-wesley", "author_date": "1739", "foot": "trochaic", "meter": {"pattern": [7, 7, 7, 7], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": true, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Easter", "Christ, Resurrection of", "Praise, Son", "Victory", "Joy"], "scripture": ["Matthew 28:5-6", "Luke 24:4-7", "1 Corinthians 15:55-57"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "wesley-hymns-sacred-poems-1739", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Charles Wesley, 1739 (Hymns and Sacred Poems). This is the 'Alleluia' form of the hymn \u2014 each seven-syllable line is answered by a sung 'Alleluia!' \u2014 as set to LLANFAIR and EASTER HYMN. Distinct from the plain 7.7.7.7 form (christ-the-lord-is-risen-today, set to ORIENTIS PARTIBUS). All text components pre-1929 and public domain.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Christ, the Lord, is risen to -- day, Al -- le -- lu -- ia! Sons of men and an -- gels say, Al -- le -- lu -- ia! Raise your joys and tri -- umphs high, Al -- le -- lu -- ia! Sing, ye heavens, and earth, re -- ply, Al -- le -- lu -- ia!", "prose": ["Christ, the Lord, is risen today, Alleluia!", "Sons of men and angels say, Alleluia!", "Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia!", "Sing, ye heavens, and earth, reply, Alleluia!"]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Love's re -- deem -- ing work is done, Al -- le -- lu -- ia! Fought the fight, the ba -- ttle won, Al -- le -- lu -- ia! Lo! the Sun's ec -- lipse is o'er, Al -- le -- lu -- ia! Lo! He sets in blood no more, Al -- le -- lu -- ia!", "prose": ["Love's redeeming work is done, Alleluia!", "Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia!", "Lo! the Sun's eclipse is o'er, Alleluia!", "Lo! He sets in blood no more, Alleluia!"]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Vain the stone, the watch, the seal, Al -- le -- lu -- ia! Christ hath burst the gates of hell, Al -- le -- lu -- ia! Death in vain for -- bids His rise, Al -- le -- lu -- ia! Christ hath o -- pened par -- a -- dise, Al -- le -- lu -- ia!", "prose": ["Vain the stone, the watch, the seal, Alleluia!", "Christ hath burst the gates of hell, Alleluia!", "Death in vain forbids His rise, Alleluia!", "Christ hath opened paradise, Alleluia!"]}, "4": {"syllabified": "Lives a -- gain our glor -- ious King, Al -- le -- lu -- ia! Where, O death, is now thy sting? Al -- le -- lu -- ia! Once He died our souls to save, Al -- le -- lu -- ia! Where thy vic -- to -- ry, O grave? Al -- le -- lu -- ia!", "prose": ["Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia!", "Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia!", "Once He died our souls to save, Alleluia!", "Where thy victory, O grave? Alleluia!"]}, "5": {"syllabified": "Soar we now where Christ hath led, Al -- le -- lu -- ia! Follow -- ing our ex -- al -- ted Head, Al -- le -- lu -- ia! Made like Him, like Him we rise, Al -- le -- lu -- ia! Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Al -- le -- lu -- ia!", "prose": ["Soar we now where Christ hath led, Alleluia!", "Following our exalted Head, Alleluia!", "Made like Him, like Him we rise, Alleluia!", "Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Alleluia!"]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}