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Mary Magdalene and the other Mary.
A song for all Marys. [1]
Our Master lies asleep and is at rest:
His Heart has ceased to bleed, His Eyes to weep:
The sun ashamed has dropt down in the west:
Our Master lies asleep.
5 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 sonw, arise to reap: --
10 No cock-crow yet, no flush on eastern crest:
Our Master lies asleep.
[1] In Poems, R. W. Crump. (ed.), apud. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti - II, (Louisiana State University Press: Baton Rouge & Londres, 1986, pp.177;