W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895.
The Tomb of Rock
Thomas Toke Lynch (18181871)W
Earth affords her heavenly guest?
For the child she had no room,
To the man she gives—a tomb.
Here is stone around, above;
’Tis the dark world’s stony heart,
Enter, and fulfil thy part.
And a napkin soft is bound
O’er thy features sorrow-worn,
And thy brow so sharply torn.
O, sleep on and gather might;
When it pleases Thee to wake,
Tomb and world alike shall shake.