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EASTER LAMBS by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: OURS IS THE ECHOED CRY
Last Line: LAMENT AGAIN.
Ours is the echoed cry
Of helpless Innocents about to die.
Remembering them
In Ramah, for the Lamb of Bethlehem
Untimely slain,
We, when the paschal sacrifice is nigh,
Lament again.



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