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First Line: While christ lay dead the widowed world
Last Line: And love remembered mirth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection


WHILE Christ lay dead the widowed world
Wore willow green for hope undone:
Till, when bright Easter dews impearled
The chilly burial earth,
All north and south, all east and west,
Flushed rosy in the arising sun;
Hope laughed, and Faith resumed her rest,
And Love remembered mirth.





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