Easter Poem
1.
The joy of the Easter festival fills the circuit of the world.
Let heaven, earth, and sea bring forth joyous songs
And let Halelujah play melodiously sounding together with organs.
2.
Let Hell alone wail emptied of its stolen booty,
Let it deplore its broken locks and demolished iron walls,
Which the king of glory has undermined with praise of victory.
3.
Astounding law of mystery, a new sort of battle!
The bound person frees the snares, the dead one comes back to life,
And while life is destroyed, the death of death is brought about.
4.
The scales of the cross weigh the price of the world hanging in the balance;
While the collector (judge) seeks for that (the price of the world), it has lost the ancient law (Old Testament law);
He struggles to gulp down bait, but is pierced through by the hook.
5. (Col 2:14)
The first human writers composed (Old Testament Law),
That which Christ later erased by means of another tablet of wood (the cross);
What Adam first had written (Old Testament Law), that which followed (Christ and his teachings in the New Testament) had blotted out.
6. (Mt. 27:51)
When the creator of life dies, the whole earth also perishes together.
The sun covered its rays, the mourning earth trembled;
The screen of the temple is divided, the strength of rocks is cut.
7.
The one who is not contained by heaven is enclosed in a small tomb,
Having been fortified by rich booty with the prince of death having been conquered
He rises with the triumphal power on the third day.
8.
Guarding soldiers, give back Christ, whom you guarded.
Either show the dead one or believe in the living one.
Why do you say true things for free, while having been bribed you invent falsehoods?
9. (Mt 28:7, 10)
The angelic command loudly proclaims to the women
To disseminate these sweet announcements to the apostles
Go into Galilee, see Christ there.
10. (Ex 13:18; Ps 97:1; Rom 7:6; Col 3:1)
We, free from the slavery to the Egyptian king,
After the crossing of the Red Sea let us sing a new song;
Having been Released from the laws of death we have risen up with Christ.
11. (Ex 12:7-8)
Worship, new peoples (converts), with the Easter rite of the Lord,
Stain with the blood of the paschal lamb your pestilential home (the vermin of your home),
Drive out old yeast, eat unleavened bread.
12. (Rom 6:9)
We render praises to you O Christ with all our bodies,
You, Christ, who, rising from the dead, will not linger any longer.
Let there be praise to the father and all honor for the equal priest.
Amen