Sweet, sweet is His voice in the gloom.

He spake to us first, O my sisters,

So breathing our lives into bloom!

He lifteth our souls out of prison;

We, earliest, saw him arisen!

The message of his resurrection

To man it was woman's to give;

It is fresh in her heart through the ages:

"He lives, that ye also may live,

Unfolding, as He hath, the story