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MARY MAGDALENE AND THE OTHER MARY; A SONG FOR ALL MARIES by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: OUR MASTER LIES ASLEEP AND IS AT REST
Last Line: OUR MASTER LIES ASLEEP.
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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