Once more to new creation Awake, and death gainsay, For death is swallowed up of life, And Christ is risen today!

The stanza is an Easter acclamation that links Christ’s resurrection to the believer’s moral and spiritual renewal. “Once more to new creation awake” frames Easter not only as remembrance but as a recurring summons to begin again—an awakening into “new creation” language associated with Christian regeneration. “Death gainsay” (deny/refute death) and “death is swallowed up of life” echo the New Testament’s victory-over-death motif (notably 1 Corinthians 15), presenting resurrection as a reversal in which life consumes death rather than the other way around. The closing line grounds the hope in a historical and liturgical proclamation: “Christ is risen today.”