In the Midst of the Rumbling and Lightening: He Arose.
In that dark cloudless starry night
When mortals lay on their bed
And the rock cracked under the
Weight of the freezing snow
In Calvary mount, the sentries stood
Their fire could not melt the frosty night air;
Teeth clanking they stood: watching the
Sealed sepulcher where the lamb laid
Then in a blaze of lightening, the earth shook
And the heavens open as celestial hosts
Descended upon the serene luster hill:
Their hymns and psalteries in seraphic melodies
Drowsed the sentries into stupor
The earth quake and the hill shook
In response to the intense presence
Of the heavenly beings in mortal thoroughfare
Rolling asunder the impregnable seal on the sepulcher
In the midst of the lightening and Rumbling; He arose
He arose from the depth of death eternal captivity;
To vanquish death and its slavery hold on mankind
Alleluia! He arose; him to whom death could not hold captive
He arose to redeemed the saints to their fair heavenly Mansions
