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CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS Calvary

The women stood and watched while thick, black night
 * Enclosed the awful tragedy. Afar
 * Three crosses stood, against a single bar

Of crimson-glowing, black-encircled light. No hint of Easter dawn. In all the height
 * Of that dark heaven, not a single star
 * To whisper;—Love and Life the victors are.

It seemed to them that wrong had conquered right.

O ye who watch and wait, the night is long.
 * A curtain of spun fire and woven gloom
 * Across the mighty tragedy is drawn.

But soon your ears shall hear a triumph song,
 * And golden light shall touch each sacred tomb,
 * And voices shout at last—The Dawn! The Dawn!

F.O.Call. 23