Easter Lilies
by John Banister Tabb
Though long in wintry sleep ye lay,
The powers of darkness could not stay
Your coming at the call of day,
Proclaiming spring.
Nay; like the faithful virgins wise,
With lamps replenished ye arise,
Ere dawn the death-anointed eyes
Of Christ, the king.
Source:
PoemsCopyright 1894
John Lane, LondonCopeland and Day, Boston