#391: This Joyful Eastertide

This is another one of those "my choir did an arrangement but it was pretty similar to the hymn as it is here." That was Easter 2017. This song contains a line about "trump from east to west," which in this context is an old-timey way of saying "trumpet," but we sort of gave it the "...this is now awkward" glance and unfortunately it's stuck.

Other than that, it's a nice text with lots of fanciful melismas. The chorus about "our faith had been in vain" were it not for Jesus' resurrection is one of those stark-in-a-good-way lines about the importance of Jesus' death and resurrection, although it's actually borrowed from Paul. And "Lover of souls" as a form of address for Jesus is good.