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Bring flowers to strew His way,
Yea, sing, make holiday;
Bid young lambs leap,
And earth laugh after sleep

Far from this foreign Easter damp and chilly My soul steals to a pear-shaped plot of ground,
Where gleamed the lilac-tinted Easter lily Soft-scented in the air for yards around;
Alone, without a hint of guardian leaf
Just like a fra...

Rise heart; thy lord is risen
Sing his praise                     Without delayes,
Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise                     With him mayst rise:
That, as his death calcinèd thee to dust,

ST glorious Lord of Lyfe
that, on this day,
Didst make Thy triumph over death and sin;
And, having harrowd hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive, us to win:

The silver trumpets rang across the Dome:
The people knelt upon the ground with awe:
And borne upon the necks of men I saw,
Like some great God, the Holy Lord of Rome

I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.