English poem
Iii
by Clarence Cook (1828–1900)
This is the Easter! Day of uprising! Day of renewing! Heart, take new courage! Look no more downward! See, the sun rising! Hark, the bird singing! See, the grass springing! The brook floweth free! Hand to the plough, man! Cut deep the furrow, Cast thy seed strongly!
Think not of sorrow! Of death or of sin! To-day, let thy future Burst from its cerements,-- Roll back the Grave stone! To-day, Life immortal! Oh, mortal! begin!
New York, April 2, 1877.