All is o'er; the pain, the sorrow

"All is o'er; the pain, the sorrow" is an Easter Eve hymn written by John Moultrie. Dated April 2, 1836, the original poem consisted of twenty six-line stanzas under the title "Hymn for Easter Eve" and was published in his volume My Brother's Grave and other Poems (1837).

A four-stanza selection comprising stanzas one, two, three, and twenty was included as No. 2 in Psalms & Hymns adapted to Public Worship (Rugby, 1839), commonly known as Bucknill's Collection. This abridged version was widely adopted across British and American hymnals. In American collections, such as the Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church (1872), the text often underwent modifications, and in Hymns of the Church (1869) it was erroneously attributed to Jane E. Leeson.

The original closing lines of the first stanza read: "Yet once more to seal His doom, / Christ must sleep within the tomb." In Godfrey Thring's Collection (1882), John Ellerton altered these lines to: "Yet awhile, His own to save / Christ must linger in the grave."