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)
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
I hear a shout that moves the earth, A cry that wakes the dead!
From The New Morning Poems by Noyes, Alfred
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.
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
