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[]  Christina Rossetti, 1888

 

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.

 

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[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;