Though long in wintry sleep ye lay,The powers of darkness could not stayYour coming at the call of day,Proclaiming spring.Nay, like the faithful virgins wise,With lamps replenished ye ariseEre dawn the death-anointed eyesOf Christ, the king.—John B. Tabb.
Though long in wintry sleep ye lay,The powers of darkness could not stayYour coming at the call of day,Proclaiming spring.Nay, like the faithful virgins wise,With lamps replenished ye ariseEre dawn the death-anointed eyesOf Christ, the king.—John B. Tabb.
Though long in wintry sleep ye lay,The powers of darkness could not stayYour coming at the call of day,Proclaiming spring.
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 ariseEre dawn the death-anointed eyesOf Christ, the king.—John B. Tabb.
Nay, like the faithful virgins wise,
With lamps replenished ye arise
Ere dawn the death-anointed eyes
Of Christ, the king.
—John B. Tabb.