Death cannot hold the resurrection life,

Death cannot hold the resurrection life,

The life of God eternal manifest;

'Tis uncreated, indestructible,

'Tis Christ Himself, unconqu'rable, expressed.

Death cannot hold the resurrection life,

Though all its force against it may combine;

Death only gives it opportunity

To show the boundless pow'r of life divine.

Death cannot hold the resurrection life,

The more interred, the more it multiplies;

All kinds of suff'ring only help it grow

And fruits of life abundant realize.

Death cannot hold the resurrection life,

Thru every block and barrier it breaks;

Conqu'ring the pow'r of darkness and of hell,

It swallows death and victory partakes.

Death cannot hold the resurrection life,

All of God's fulness it will manifest;

God's righteousness and holiness it yields,

His glorious image by it is expressed.

Oh, may I know this resurrection life,

In every kind of death its pow'r outpoured,

In my experience ever realize

This life is nought but Christ my living Lord.