Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MARY MAGDALENE AND THE OTHER MARY; A SONG FOR ALL MARIES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: Our master lies asleep and is at rest
Last Line: Our master lies asleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene


OUR Master lies asleep and is at rest:
His Heart has ceased to bleed, His Eye to weep:
The sun ashamed has dropt down in the west:
Our Master lies asleep.

Now we are they who weep, and trembling keep
Vigil, with wrung heart in a sighing breast,
While slow time creeps, and slow the shadows creep.

Renew Thy youth, as eagle from the nest;
O Master, who hast sown, arise to reap: --
No cock-crow yet, no flush on eastern crest:
Our Master lies asleep.





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