wakes the dead

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And then, across the breathless wood, a Bell began to sound, The only Bell that wakes the dead, And Stockton Signer raised his head, And called to all the deacons in the ancient burial-ground.

From The New Morning Poems by Noyes, Alfred

From clime to clime, from shore to shore,     Shall thrill the magic thread;   The new Prometheus steals once more     The fire that wakes the dead!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 by Various

Revive Thy work, O Lord, Thy mighty arm make bare, Speak with the voice that wakes the dead, And make Thy people hear.

From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron

I hear a shout that moves the earth, A cry that wakes the dead!

From The New Morning Poems by Noyes, Alfred

Now spring-tide showers its foison on the land, And lively hearts wend forth, a joyous band, For 'Isa's breath wakes the dead earth to life, And trees gleam white with flowers, like Musa's hand.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar