Our Master Lies Asleep

Mary Magdalene and The Other Mary; A Song For All Maries

Our Master lies asleep and is at rest:

His Heart has ceased to bleed, His Eye to weep:

The sun ashamed has dropt down in the west:

Our Master lies asleep.

Now we are they who weep, and trembling keep

Vigil, with wrung heart in a sighing breast,

While slow time creeps, and slow the shadows creep.

Renew Thy youth, as eagle from the nest;

O Master, who hast sown, arise to reap: –

No cock-crow yet, no flush on eastern crest:

Our Master lies asleep.

~Christina Rossetti