wakes the dead

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“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)

So a soul may stiffen into the death of self and sin, even though the voice that wakes the dead to a life of love be calling to it.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Maclaren, Alexander

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.

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

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