W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895.
The Raising of Lazarus
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)W
And home to Mary’s house return’d,
Was this demanded—if he yearn’d
To hear her weeping by his grave?
There lives no record of reply,
Which telling what it is to die
Had surely added praise to praise.
The streets were fill’d with joyful sound,
A solemn gladness even crown’d
The purple brows of Olivet.
The rest remaineth unreveal’d;
He told it not; or something seal’d
The lips of that Evangelist.