Melito of Sardis was a 2nd century church leader in what is now Turkey. I quote from his Peri Pascha, which reads like an Easter Poem to me:
“This is the one …who was hanged on the tree, who was buried in the earth, who was resurrected from among the dead, and who raised mankind up out of the grave below to the heights of heaven.
“When the Lord had clothed himself with humanity, and had suffered for the sake of the sufferer, and had been bound for the sake of the imprisoned, and had been judged for the sake of the condemned, and buried for the sake of the one who was buried, he rose up from the dead, and cried aloud with this voice: ...I set the condemned man free; I gave the dead man life; I raised up the one who had been entombed ...I, he says, am the Christ. I am the one who destroyed death, and triumphed over the enemy, and trampled Hades under foot, and bound the strong one, and carried off man to the heights of heaven. I, he says, am the Christ.
“Therefore, come, all families of men, you who have been befouled with sins, and receive forgiveness for your sins. I am your forgiveness, I am the passover of your salvation, I am the lamb which was sacrificed for you, I am your ransom, I am your light, I am your saviour, I am your resurrection, I am your king, I am leading you up to the heights of heaven, I will show you the eternal Father, I will raise you up by my right hand.
“This is the alpha and the omega. This is the beginning and the end - an indescribable beginning and an incomprehensible end. This is the Christ. This is the king. This is Jesus…This is the Lord. This is the one who rose up from the dead. This is the one who sits at the right hand of the Father…to whom be the glory and the power forever. Amen.”