Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
The strife is o’er, the battle done;
Now is the Victor’s triumph won;
Now be the song of praise begun.
Alleluia!

Death’s mightiest powers have done their worst,
And Jesus hath His foes dispersed;
Let shouts of praise and joy outburst.
Alleluia!

He closed the yawning gates of hell;
The bars from heaven’s high portals fell.
Let songs of praise His triumph tell.
Alleluia!

(“The Strife is O’er, the Battle Done” stanzas 1,2, and 4; a 17th century anonymous hymn text translated by Francis Pott in the mid 19th century; hymn 210 in “The Lutheran Hymnal,” a 1941 hymnal from Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis)