Comforting Easter Bells

Comforting Easter Bells

Sweet is the comfort that the chimes

Are throbbing down upon the ear

In pulsing beat of wordless rhymes--

Life and death, human breath,

Joy and pain, naught is vain,

For Christ is risen! Heaven is near!

If sorrows come, they also go:

If joys must fly, they reappear.

Still, gladsome bells, swing to and fro--

Life and death, human breath,

Joy and pain, naught is vain,

For Christ is risen! Heaven is near!

Then ring for joy, ye Easter bells,

That love divine has conquered fear!

Immortal hope your rhythm tells--

Life and death, human breath,

Joy and pain, naught is vain,

For Christ is risen! Heaven is near!

            by Helen Evertson Smith.