Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-22

-TVLONE find a place in Go ls great house
~ 70 walt the Easter service ia His Nance
/Arb And while watch the gath'rlng worshipcrs
My soul absorbs the rich and varied scene,
4 Before me stretch the Wide cathedral aisles
Blsoccd with the tr1asepts and dim;
While the altar high the candle light
Casts wayring CLEANS against the reredos.
Above great banks Of creamy lly-cups
A swinging censor flames It's fragrant breath;
And through the windows TAN the sunshine bright
Mergcs in colors rich that burn and glow,
And chase the lurking shadows here and there
Until they hide in loft and groined arch.
7 o while watch single organ tone
cuts through the silence like human cry
l. Fills all the hooks and cranoias with It's woe,
Then dies beneath thundrIng crash of sound
seem TO see the hin of Calvary
Was It lie who cried rIercngly?
That blur OF sound great natures burst grief?
Soft Now the organ grow faint again,
And all the air pulsing silence holds
Lower the candles burn-ucar draws the night
The Paschal floods all the heavens vast,
DImmlng tho torches the city streets,
As unto Joscphs tomb they carry Him
Where Roman soldiers close it with a stone
Posting Gordon Of the guard before.
Mark you the organs sharp ana strilent tone
The ring OF steel. the slow "Als well AIS Welt"
Then through the chords newer theme breaks free
Che ran Of womcu8 tcars-cach bitter drop
A trcmolo of human destiny
Whose ending Is not writ this sila the grave.
Soon win the jewish Sabbath day dawn clear:
But the is down. the night is stu
And silent, the lonely guarded tomb
What change mysterious and wonderful
Is taking place beyond that ro,kbound door?
Y lark to the organs hymn OF victory
RI Its dmpaaop rolling proudly forth
Is caught and cherished in mans heart for aye
And though he cannot voice the change IN words
Tie knows the way is opened Tor his feet.
Swift speeds the night Tho pale chill hour Of
Is creeping the hills when again
The grieving unto the tomb
Bearing the myuh and olocs Bent with
hey murmur DER the fate Of their dead Lord
Cutters the morning dew upon the grass.
The April flowers diamond tipped afresh
In all the olive groves magic chime
OF bird-song fails I'm thrilling cadenocs.
An nature maryes while the weep,
And weeping, reach a last the place they seek
Nor know that tears ueer yet have found the way,
ND TO- an earthquake rolls its thundcr-shock
~ Against the scaled door Of the sepuchre
Behold the vision Of am angel strikes
poscendcnt the heavens; he lifts aside
The stone-and si,tlus waits In majesty.
Like lightning Is his contenancc
His raimont bright, in trembling awe o him
The watchers quake ana swift as dead men fall
.Fearstruck. I'm silence nearer they approach.
Gazing In doubt within the scpulchre.
Aud there two angels clothed in shining robes
Bow down unto the earth and ask Of them:
"Wby seek the living here among the dead?
Comc-scc Thy Lord longer ucth here
Death lie o'ercame and all victorious rosel
Fear yc no more-the grave eIorAed."
what waves Of joy swell in their happy hearts!
what melodies Of praise ESCAPE their lips!
They clasp each other close in raptures trance,
And then flying feet they seek their friends.
~ LIST the organ now Can you not hear
The wondrous umult-all the glad full notes7
~ The myriad throbbugs Of each human soul
Vibrate within that heayon-bom harmony,
And mt my spirit far away from earth,
what Sing the robins In the oms outsider
i hear the doves within the olive groves
the morn, the first glad Easter morn;
I view the dcw-staIred hill OF Calvary
on Christ hear upon that organs swell
Thy sorrow all Thy strife, Thy bitter end
Yet soaring clear and trcmulously sweet.
Thrills tho rich measure Of Thy glorious rise
white echoes from the Resurrection Morn
Blend the mighty consonance of sound,
And lo the Easter service Of the soul
Breaks full in wondrous music at Thy feet!