Felicia Hemans in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Volume 33 1833/The Sisters of Bethany after the Death of Lazarus
For other versions of this work, see Female Characters of Scripture. XI. The Sisters of Bethany after the Death of Lazarus.
Free service from the heart is all in all to Heaven.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 33, Page 805
XI.
THE SISTERS OF BETHANY AFTER THE DEATH OF LAZARUS.
One grief, one faith, O sisters of the Dead!
Was in your bosoms—thou, whose steps, made fleet
By keen hope fluttering in the hearts which bled,
Bore thee, as wings, the Lord of Life to greet;
And thou, that duteous in thy still retreat
Didst wait his summons—then with reverent love
Fall weeping at the blest Deliverer's feet,
Whom ev'n to heavenly tears thy woe could move.
And which to Him, the All-seeing and All-just,
Was loveliest, that quick zeal, or lowly trust?
Oh! question not, and let no law be given
To those unveilings of its deepest shrine,
By the wrung spirit made in outward sign: