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See, in that rock-hewn garden sepulchre, The Holy One of God, despised and slain, With nail-torn hands and feet, and spear-pierced side, His gentle brow by mocking thorns defaced; See where He lies, obedient unto death. Into that pallid face the glow of life Begins to steal, while silent and in awe The heavenly watchers stand. Now they with haste Unwind the scented wrappings from His form That fill the place with rich aromas rare, Perfume of spicery and sweet spikenard's breath Lingering since Love her alabastron broke, And with her tresses wiped these tear-bathed feet. And then, their joyful faces all aglow Like flashing sunbeams, quickly by a touch They roll away the stone with jarring shock, As if an earthquake passed, and sitting there Behold their Lord go forth, Death's Conqueror!
See, in that rock-hewn garden sepulchre, The Holy One of God, despised and slain, With nail-torn hands and feet, and spear-pierced side, His gentle brow by mocking thorns defaced; See where He lies, obedient unto death. Into that pallid face the glow of life Begins to steal, while silent and in awe The heavenly watchers stand. Now they with haste Unwind the scented wrappings from His form That fill the place with rich aromas rare, Perfume of spicery and sweet spikenard's breath Lingering since Love her alabastron broke, And with her tresses wiped these tear-bathed feet. And then, their joyful faces all aglow Like flashing sunbeams, quickly by a touch They roll away the stone with jarring shock, As if an earthquake passed, and sitting there Behold their Lord go forth, Death's Conqueror!
In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- Henry Nehemiah Dodge
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- In print by 1911 AD · modern
In print by 1911: recorded in The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 423; printed byline: Henry Nehemiah Dodge; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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