Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HYMNARY: 622. EASTER, by JEAN BAPTISTE SANTEUIL Poet's Biography First Line: The stone is rolled away Last Line: Save us, we pray thee, from the second death. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection | ||||||||
THE stone is rolled away; The grave is bid display Her secrets; through her charnel-chambers rings A voice; and lo, the dead Lifts his awakened head, Lo, the deaf hearkens to the King of kings. O wondrous sight! Again Life throbs in every vein: Bound hand and foot and blindfold, on his way The dead goes forth alive; Doomed haply to survive The multitude who mourn for him to-day. Thus Death himself, our foe, At last shall be laid low; His chains rent piecemeal, and his slaves set free. That, which Thy Sovereign Power Hath wrought, O Christ, this hour Is but an emblem of the things to be. Now to the Father, Son, And Spirit, ever One, Be power ascribed by all things that have breath. In Thee, O Christ, we trust: When we return to dust, Save us, we pray Thee, from the second Death. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EASTER EVE by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON EASTER SUNDAY by LUCILLE CLIFTON GOD SEND EASTER by LUCILLE CLIFTON NOT THE CUCKOLD'S DREAM; FOR SAM PEREIRA by NORMAN DUBIE EASTER HYMN by GEORGE SANTAYANA I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: THE FESTIVAL OF THE FRERES LUMIERES by ELENI SIKELIANOS SPANISH EASTER: 1926 by CONRAD AIKEN THE HYMNARY: 317. ASCENSION by JEAN BAPTISTE SANTEUIL THE HYMNARY: 368. THE TRANSFIGURATION by JEAN BAPTISTE SANTEUIL THE HYMNARY: 389. FESTIVALS OF APOSTLES by JEAN BAPTISTE SANTEUIL |
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