On the Resurrection morning

On the Resurrection morning. Sabine Baring-Gould* (1834-1924). Written in 1864, and first published in the Church Times, 23 July 1864. Baring-Gould’s mother, Sophia Charlotte, had died in December 1863, and the hymn is evidently a response to her death: On the Resurrection morning  Soul and body meet again;No more sorrow, no more weeping,                              no more pain! This is particularly noticeable in stanza 7: On that happy Easter morning  All the graves their dead restore;Father, sister, child, and mother,                               meet once more. The hymn was included in Church Hymns (1871; Church Hymns with Tunes, 1874), and in Godfrey Thring*’s A Church of...