Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By John Donne (15731631)The Cross
SINCE Christ embraced the Cross itself, dare I, | |
His image, th’ image of His Cross deny? | |
Would I have profit by the sacrifice, | |
And dare the chosen altar to despise? | |
It bore all other sins, but is it fit | 5 |
That it should bear the sin of scorning it? | |
Who from the picture would avert his eye, | |
How would he fly His pains who there did die? | |
From me no pulpit, nor misgrounded law, | |
Nor scandal taken, shall this cross withdraw. | 10 |