A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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H. H. Milman.

“Come forth!” He cries, “thou dead!”

O God, what means that strange and sudden sound,

That murmurs from the tomb? That ghastly head,

With funeral fillets bound?

It is a living form—

The loved, the lost, the won,

Won from the grave, corruption, and the worm—

“And is not this the Son

Of God?” they whispered, while the sisters poured