A Dictionary of Hymnology/Christ is risen! Christ is risen! He hath burst, &c.
Christ is risen! Christ Is risen! He hath burst, &c. A. T. Gurney. [Easter.] 1st pub. in his collection A Book of Praise, &c., 1862, No. 119, in 3 st. of 12 l. It is in C. U. in three forms:—
1. The original, which is seldom found outside the author's Coll.
2. The text as in Church Hymns, 1871, No. 132. In the Church Times of Feb. 19, 1875, the author denounces this arrangement, whilst in the folio ed. of Church Hymns, 1881, Mr. Ellerton (one of the editors) allows that "The variations in this hymn amount to an almost complete recasting of it. The fine conception of the hymn was grievously marred by faulty execution, and sincere thanks are due to the author for permitting his original to be so daringly manipulated" (p. xlii.). This text has been introduced into American use through the Church Praise Bk.', N. Y., 1882.
3. The text as in H. A. & M., 1875, No. 138. Against this also the author complains in the same letter to the Church Times. It also has been introduced into American C. U. It was given In Laudes Domini, N. Y., 1884.