Why should believers droop

Verse 1
Why should believers droop?
The Father of our Lord
Again hath rais’d him up,
The dead to life restor’d:
Jesus his mortal pangs are o’re,
He lives, he lives, to die no more!

Verse 2
It was not possible
That Hades should hold fast
The God who saves from hell,
And death destroys at last;
Long in the grave He could not lie,
Or Life himself forever die.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.”—[Acts 2,] v. 24.” It appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 148.
Publishing: Public Domain