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