Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924). "On the Resurrection morning." Alfred H. Miles, ed. 1907. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century

Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

“On the Resurrection morning”

By Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924)


ON the Resurrection morning
Soul and body meet again;
No more sorrow, no more weeping,
no more pain!

Here awhile they must be parted,	5
And the flesh its Sabbath keep,
Waiting in a holy stillness,
wrapt in sleep.

For a while the tirèd body
Lies with feet toward the morn;	10
the last and brightest Easter
day be born.

But the soul in contemplation
Utters earnest prayer and strong,
Bursting at the Resurrection	15
into song.

Soul and body reunited
Thenceforth nothing shall divide,
Waking up in CHRIST’S own likeness,
satisfied.	20

Oh! the beauty, oh! the gladness
Of that Resurrection day,
Which shall not through endless ages
pass away!

On that happy Easter morning	25
All the graves their dead restore;
Father, sister, child, and mother,
meet once more.

To that brightest of all meetings
Bring us, JESU CHRIST, at last;	30
To Thy Cross, through death and judgment,
holding fast.