It is the Lord who calls today,

'Rise up my Love and come away

out of the world and all it's weights,

out of the sin that I hate.

Rise up my love and be not proud,

rise up my love above the crowd.

Declare My Name upon the earth,

Rise up My Love--it is the Lord.

I hear Hear His voice beckoning sweetly unto me:

"Rise up, my Love and come away with Me"

Springtime is here, winter has gone and past.

The fig trees and vines are blossom forth again at last.

I will turn, My Love,  till the dawn comes in,

Till the shadows flee away.

I will hide myself in the cleft of the rock

Until the break of day.

I hear His knock and my heart awakes to Him,

There at my door and He is waiting to come in,

Saying "Rise up my Love,

Hurry my head is drenched with dew.

Open to Me and I will come and sup with you."

And my heart was moved as I heard His voice;

I arose, but He was gone.

Though I searched all night till the dawn came in,

I had waited much too long.

Come back, my Love, cause me to hear Thy Voice once more,

Hide not Thy face, now I am waiting at my door.

What is my Love? He's greater than any I have known,

The fairest of all and I am His and His alone.

Now I hear His Voice, my Beloved's Voice

As He calls to me to come.

I will wait no more--I will gladly go

Till my work on earth is done.

Now I see His Face, my Beloved's Face,

As He calls to me to arise.

Through the clouds I see all the love for me

In my Beloved's eyes.

Rise up my Love---it is the Lord.