Tune: Llanfair
(\'Hail the day that sees Him rise\')
Acts 1 v.5-11
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John did baptise with water - Alleluia!
Christ said disciples for sure - Alleluia!
Would be baptised in few days - Alleluia!
With the Spirit, praises raise - Alleluia!
Earthly kingdoms they all be - Alleluia!
In God the Father\'s hands, see - Alleluia!
Under His authority - Alleluia!
When and what He says shall be - Alleluia!
Disciples they would receive - Alleluia!
Power, and all who believe - Alleluia!
When the Holy Spirit comes - Alleluia!
Upon all them, not just some - Alleluia!
They shall be His witnesses - Alleluia!
Share the gospel, people bless - Alleluia!
Even to earth\'s farthest shore - Alleluia!
Salvation proclaimed e\'ermore - Alleluia!
They beheld, Christ was taken - Alleluia!
To heaven, though forsaken - Alleluia!
Were they not, the Spirit\'s power - Alleluia!
Would come, stay with them each hour - Alleluia!
Cloud receives Him from their sight - Alleluia!
Defies gravity, but right - Alleluia!
For death He has conquered sure - Alleluia!
He e\'er lives now, dies no more - Alleluia!
Two men unto them appeared - Alleluia!
In white, unto them they neared - Alleluia!
Said, Why stand you gazing? learn - Alleluia!
In clouds too Christ shall return - Alleluia!