"Easter Wings" -George Herbert 1633

The Resurrection --John Donne

The  Resurrection (No. 6 La Corona)

Moist with one drop of Thy blood, my dry soul

Shall—though she now be in extreme degree

Too stony hard, and yet too fleshly—be

Freed by that drop, from being starved, hard or foul,

And life by this death abled shall control

Death, whom Thy death slew; nor shall to me

Fear of first or last death bring misery,

If in Thy life-book  my name thou enroll.

Flesh in that long sleep is not putrified,

But made that there, of which, and for which it was;

Nor can by other means be glorified. 

May then sin’s sleep and death soon from me pass,

That waked from both, I again risen may

Salute the last and everlasting day

~John Donne

Stir up my conscience!

St. John Passion  BWV 245 ~ J.S. Bach
Chorale 14

Petrus, der nicht denkt zurück,

Peter, who does not think back at all,

Seinen Gott verneinet,

denies his God,

Der doch auf ein' ernsten Blick

but then at a look of reproach

Bitterlichen weinet.

weeps bitterly.

Jesu, blicke mich auch an,

Jesus, look at me also

Wenn ich nicht will büßen;

when I am reluctant to repent;

Wenn ich Böses hab getan,

when I have done evil

Rühre mein Gewissen!

stir up my conscience!  

I sang this with my choir a few years back and it has become one of my favourite choral works. You can truly sense the worship and faith of Bach in all his music, but particularly in his Easter Passions. Soli Deo Gloria!