Tixall Poetry/To the Most Incomparable Lady, Mrs Catherine Gage, upon St Mary Magdalen's Not Finding Our Saviour in the Sepulchre

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To the Most Incomparable Lady,

Mrs Catherine Gage,

upon St Mary Magdalen's Not Finding Our Saviour in the Sepulchre.

 

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 From a sad death I come,
 From a sad death I come,
To seek my surest life, to seek it in a tombe.
 But alas! my sorrows have
 Only here an empty grave:
 Nought receaves my doubl'd moan,
 But a hard and sensless stone.

 When at thy Crucifix,
 We did our miseries mix,
O then why was not I allow'd with thee to die:
 Free from grief and killing pain,
 I had never sought in vain,
 Sought my life where death I find,
 In thy tombe, but not so kind.