W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895.
On the Sepulchre of Christ
Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639)Translated by J. A. Symonds
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Think how God’s deathless Mind, that men might be
Robed in celestial immortality
(O Love divine!) in flesh was raimented:
How He was killed and buried; from the dead
How He arose to life with victory,
And reigned in heaven, how all of us shall be
Glorious like Him whose hearts to His are wed:
How they who die for love of reason, give
Hypocrites, tyrants, sophists, all who sell
Their neighbour’s ill for holiness—to hell:
How the dead saint condemns the bad who live;
How all he does becomes a law for men
How he at last to judge shall come again.