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The fasts are done; the Aves said;
The moon has filled her horn;
And in the solemn night I watch
Before the Easter morn.
So pure, so still the starry heaven,
So hushed the brooding air,
I could hear the sweep of an angel's wings
If one should earthward fare.

— Edna Dean Proctor

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Source: "Easter Morning", Stanza 1, in Poems (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890), p. 104
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Your King may be powerful—a brother I'll be—
But vassal to none on the land or the sea!

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I think of the garden after the rain;
And hope to my heart comes singing,
"At morn the cherry-blooms will be white,
And the Easter bells be ringing!"

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Went up to the Lord when the carnage was done.

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By saints gone home to the world of light,
Yet watching her realm for aye?

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