And seemed to write in clear, long lines of gold

Upon the whiten'd earth, the glorious words,

So shall the dead arise, at the last trump,

Sown here in weakness, to be raised in power,

Sown in corruption, to put on the robes

Of immortality.

Praise be to Him

Who gives through Christ our Lord, to dying flesh

Such victory.

[ COLONEL SAMUEL COLT, ]