Day of God, thou bless??d day, At thy dawn the grave gave way To the power of Him within, Who had, sinless, bled for sin. Thine the radiance to illume First, for man, the dismal tomb, When its bars their weakness owned, There revealing death dethroned. Then the Sun of righteousness Rose, a darkened world to bless, Bringing up from mortal night Immortality and light. Day of glory, day of power, Sacred be thine every hour: Emblem, earnest, of the rest That remaineth for the blest.