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Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

By Poems. IV. Martha and Mary

Aubrey de Vere (1814–1902)

“O SISTER! leave you thus undone

The bidding of the Lord;

Or call you this a welcome? Run

And deck with me the board.”

Thus Martha spake: but spake to one

Who answered not a word:

For she kept ever singing,

“There is no joy so sweet,

As musing upon one we love

And sitting at His feet!”

“O Sister! must thy hands alone

His board and bath prepare?

His eyes are on you! raise your own:

He’ll find a welcome there!”

Thus spake again, in loftier tone,

That Hebrew woman fair.

But Mary still kept singing,

“There is no joy so sweet,

As musing upon Him we love

And resting at His feet.”