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The Poems of Mary Howitt

by Mary Howitt

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Hymn II The Angel

Women, why shrink ye
With wonder and dread?—
Seek not the living
Where slumbers the dead!

Weep not, nor tremble;
And be not dismayed;
The Lord hath arisen!
See where he was laid!

The grave-clothes, behold them;
The spices; the bier;
The napkin that bound him;
But he is not here!

Death could not hold him;
The grave is a prison
That keeps not the living;
The Christ has arisen!

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