Poems (Rossetti, 1901)/Mary Magdalene and the other Mary

by Christina Georgina Rossetti

MARY MAGDALENE AND THE OTHER MARY.

A SONG FOR ALL MARIES.

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.