Celestial spirit that doth roll The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul - O gentle Master of the Wise, Teach us to say: "I will arise."

Le Gallienne frames spiritual renewal in explicitly Easter imagery: a “celestial spirit” rolls away the “sepulchral stone” from the heart, echoing the Gospel tomb opened at the Resurrection. The “resurrection day” becomes inward and psychological—an awakening from despair, inertia, or moral deadness into a life of song (“the singing Easter of the soul”). Addressing a “gentle Master of the Wise,” the speaker asks for instruction in the decisive act of repentance and return—“I will arise”—a phrase that recalls the Prodigal Son’s resolve to go back to his father. The passage thus blends Christian typology with a broadly human plea for courage to begin again.