Her Saviour resting in the tomb by night;

Her fever rose, and still her wedded mind

Was to that scene, that hallow’d cave, confin’d -

Where in the shade of death the body laid,

There watch’d the spirit of the wandering maid;

Her looks were fix’d, entranced, illumed, serene,

In the still glory of the midnight scene:

There at her Saviour’s feet, in visions bless’d,

Th’ enraptured maid a sacred joy possess’d;

In patience waiting for the first-born ray