The sonnet portrays the stone sealing Christ’s tomb as death’s barrier, which surrenders to the power of Jesus Christ, the world’s true Light. As it rolls away, His resurrection dispels darkness with a holy gleam, transforming the tomb into a gateway of life. The earth quakes as Jesus, the radiant Lord, rises, overcoming death to illuminate humanity with His free gift of salvation. This gift is offered to all who repent, believe, and receive Him as personal Lord and Savior, with His resurrected hands extending eternal hope. The poem ends with a call to sing joyfully of this triumph, heralding Him as the Living Light who redeems the repentant.

The stone, a sentinel of death’s cold reign,
Yields to the pulse of Christ, the world’s true Light,
A seal unbroken by the earth’s disdain,
Rolls back to free our Savior’s boundless might.
No shadowed crypt could chain the King of grace,
His rising rends the gloom with holy gleam,
The tomb’s grim mouth, once set in stern embrace,
Now gapes to show the Life no dark can deem.
The earth awoke, its trembled heart set free,
As Jesus shines, the Light no night withstands,
A radiant Lord, through death’s decree breaks He,
To lift the lost with resurrected hands.
So sing we now, with voices bold and bright,
The stone is gone—behold our Living Light!