The Easter Light

Still are there love-drawn souls to­day

Author: H. A. Walter
Tune: HOLY SEPULCHRE (Thorne)
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Still are there love-drawn souls to­day
Who seek the tomb where Je­sus lay
And find the stone is rolled away.

2 They peer with­in the ghost­ly gloom;
No spir­it­ual lights il­lume,
They on­ly see the emp­ty tomb.

3 To them no an­gel forms ap­pear,
No voice is sound­ing in their ear,
"The Lord is ris’n. He is not here."

4 From pi­te­ous eyes the quick tears start,
Then, mus­ing o’er the thiev­ish art
That stole their Lord, they slow de­part.

5 They bow be­reaved be­neath the cross,
They mourn the world’s un­mea­sured loss,
And hold all heav’n­ward hope but dross.

6 Oh, fool­ish hearts and slow of sight,
Who watch and wait in Cal­va­ry’s night,
Will ye not see the East­er light?


Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16521

Author: H. A. Walter

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Text Information

First Line: Still are there love-drawn souls to­day
Title: The Easter Light
Author: H. A. Walter
Meter: 8.8.8
Source: My Creed, and Other Poems (Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1912)
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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The Cyber Hymnal #16521
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