wakes the dead
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And the vivid description of "Dies Irae": When shrivelling like a parched scroll The flaming heavens together roll And louder yet and yet more dread Swells the high Trump that wakes the dead.
From Memories and Anecdotes by Sanborn, Kate
When shrivelling like a parched scroll The flaming heavens together roll; When louder yet and yet more dread Swells the high trump that wakes the dead.
From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry
“Thrice pronounc’d, in accents dread, The thrilling verse that wakes the dead: Till from out the hollow ground Slowly breath’d a sullen sound.”
From Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
Thy mighty arm make bare; Speak, with the voice that wakes the dead, And make thy people hear.
From The Otterbein Hymnal For Use in Public and Social Worship by Lorenz, Edmund S.
I hear a shout that moves the earth, A cry that wakes the dead!
From The New Morning Poems by Noyes, Alfred
