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HE HAS RISEN is from my collection of "Bible poems for children".

Now in the sixth hour
darkness filled the
earth. In the ninth hour
Jesus, cried in a loud
voice, "My GOD, MY GOD
why hath thou forsaken
me?:
Crying again, he yielded
to death, and the grave.
As the end of the sabbath
began to dawn, toward the
first day of the week.
The two Marys brought
spices to the place where
Jesus lay.
There was a great earth-
quake.
This world trembled on its
axis. Darkness covered the
land.
A loud voice from heaven
rumbled throughout this
earth.
"Come forth, come forth,"
the grave belched, gave
way, the son of God, stood
up and walked away.
The grave could not contain
him. He had defeated death
and hell. He had risen to
live forever more.

An angel of the Lord appeared
from heaven. His countenance
alike to lightening, his raiment
white as snow.
Speaking in a loud voice,
"he has risen, he is not here."
He lives forever more.
He now sits on the right hand
of God.

copyright by heather burns