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First Line: Then was a task of glory all thine own
Last Line: Whose undespairing love still owned the spirit's worth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary Magdalen; Resurrection, The; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene


THEN was a task of glory all thine own,
Nobler than e'er the still, small voice assigned
To lips in awful music making known
The stormy splendours of some prophet's mind.
"Christ is arisen!" -- by thee, to wake mankind,
First from the sepulchre those words were brought!
Thou wert to send the mighty rushing wind
First on its way, with those high tidings fraught --
"Christ is arisen!" Thou, thou, the sinenthralled!
Earth's outcast, heaven's own ransomed one, wert called
In human hearts to give that rapture birth:
Oh raised from shame to brightness! there doth lie
The tenderest meaning of His ministry,
Whose undespairing love still owned the spirit's worth.





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