the gardener Because he was there at that early hour.

if thou have borne him hence The omission of the name is very lifelike: she is so full of her loss that she assumes that others must know all about it. -Thou" is emphatic; -Thou and not, as I fear, some enemy."

I will take him away In her loving devotion she does not measure her strength. Note that throughout it is -the Lord" (John 20:2), -my Lord" (John 20:13), -Him" thrice (John 20:15), never -His body" or -the corpse." His lifeless form is to her still Himself.

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