| Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Second Book of Modern Verse. 1922. |
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| Earth’s Easter |
| | | Robert Haven Schauffler |
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| EARTH has gone up from its Gethsemane, | |
| And now on Golgotha is crucified; | |
| The spear is twisted in the tortured side; | |
| The thorny crown still works its cruelty. | |
| Hark! while the victim suffers on the tree, | 5 |
| There sound through starry spaces, far and wide, | |
| Such words as in the last despair are cried: | |
| “My God! my God! Thou hast forsaken me!” | |
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| But when earth’s members from the cross are drawn, | |
| And all we love into the grave is gone, | 10 |
| This hope shall be a spark within the gloom: | |
| That, in the glow of some stupendous dawn, | |
| We may go forth to find, where lilies bloom, | |
| Two angels bright before an empty tomb. | |
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