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AN EASTER SONG by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: A SONG OF SUNSHINE THROUGH THE RAIN
Last Line: WERE JUST THREE DAYS APART.
Subject(s): EASTER; HOLIDAYS; JESUS CHRIST; RELIGION; RESURRECTION, THE; THE RESURRECTION; THEOLOGY;
A song of sunshine through the rain,
Of spring across the snow;
A balm to heal the hurts of pain,
A peace surpassing woe.
Lift up your heads, ye sorrowing ones,
And be ye glad of heart,
For Calvary and Easter Day
Were just three days apart!

With shudder of despair and loss
The world's deep heart is wrung,
As, lifted high upon his cross,
The Lord of Glory hung—
When rocks were rent, and ghostly forms
Stole forth in street and mart;
But Calvary and Easter Day,
Earth's blackest day, and whitest day,
Were just three days apart.



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