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25. THE WIDOW'S SON RAISED.

No company of revellers is here,

But sad procession solemn moves and slow,

While sobs are heard, and tears of anguish flow;—

A widow's only son is on the bier.

But now the mighty Son of God comes near,

And stops the moving spectacle of woe,

And says—"Young man, I tell thee, rise!" When lo

The dead man lives, and speaks in accents clear!

O, what a tide of ecstasy was thine,

Blest widow, kissing that son's face once more,

Then falling at His feet, who wak'd the dead!

So, at another day, that voice divine

Shall reach all caverns of the grave with power,

And rapture through innum'rous hearts shall spread.