The Poetry Corner

Easter Night

By Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell

All night had shout of men and cry Of woeful women filled His way; Until that noon of sombre sky On Friday, clamour and display Smote Him; no solitude had He, No silence, since Gethsemane. Public was Death; but Power, but Might, But Life again, but Victory, Were hushed within the dead of night, The shutterd dark, the secrecy. And all alone, alone, alone He rose again behind the stone.