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"STILL THY SORROW, MAGDALENA!", by                    
Last Line: "welcome love, and welcome gladness! / hallelujah!"
Subject(s): Jesus Christ;mary Magdalen;women - Bible; Mary Magdalene


Still thy sorrow, Magdalena!
Wipe the tear-drops from thine eyes;
Not at Simon's board thou kneelest,
Pouring thy repentant sighs:
All with thy glad heart rejoices;
All things sing with happy voices,
Hallelujah!

Laugh with rapture, Magdalena!
Be thy drooping forehead bright;
Banished now is every anguish,
Breaks anew thy morning light;
Christ from death the world hath freed;
He is risen, is risen indeed:
Hallelujah!

Joy! exult, O Magdalena!
He hath burst the rocky prison;
Ended are the days of darkness:
Conqueror hath He arisen.
Mourn no more the Christ departed;
Run to welcome Him, gladhearted:
Hallelujah!

Lift thine eyes, O Magdalena!
See! thy living Master stands;
See His face, as ever, smiling;
See those wounds upon His hands,
On His feet, His sacred side,
Gems that deck the Glorified:
Hallelujah!

Live, now live, O Magdalena!
Shining is thy newborn day;
Let thy bosom pant with pleasure,
Death's poor terror flee away;
Far from thee and tears of sadness,
Welcome love, and welcome gladness!
Hallelujah!





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