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A. C. SWINBURNE Alleluia altar AMBARVALIA Amorgos angels beautiful bells of Easter birds blessed blossoms breath bright brought ceremony chapel child choir choragus chorus Christ is risen Christian church color cross crowd crucified dark dead dear death Demeter disciples door dress earth Easter Carol Easter Day Easter Lily Easter morning eggs Eleusis eyes face father feast festival fire flowers GEORGE WHARTON EDWARDS goddess hands happy hath heard heart heaven Holy Homeric hymn hymn Jerusalem Jesus Judas Iscariot KATHARINE LEE BATES Kuno lady light lilies Little Boy Blue Little Friend living looked Lord Lovelow mother never Nichola night Passion Pelleas Persephone pilgrims priest resurrection robin Rogations rose round seemed Sepulchre shining silver sing song sorrow soul of Judas spirit spring stood strange sweet tableaux thee things thou tomb trees valley veil violet week young
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Page 7 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 210 - Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now...
Page 16 - And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus : and Pilate gave him leave.
Page 117 - Vain the stone, the watch, the seal ; Christ hath burst the gates of hell ; Death in vain forbids His rise ; Christ hath opened Paradise. 4 Lives again our glorious King ; Where, O death, is now thy sting?
Page 16 - Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be...
Page 50 - Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou ? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.
Page 19 - Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden ; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day ; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
Page 231 - And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
Page 242 - Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day didst make thy triumph over death and sin; and having harrowed hell, didst bring away captivity thence captive, us to win...
Page 50 - Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.