W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895.

The Lord despised and rejected

Richard Crashaw (B.) (c. 1613–1649)

‘The Lord despised and rejected by His own people.’—LUKE IV. 28, 29.

SEE, O my kinsmen, what strange thing is this!

Christ in’s own country a great stranger is.

The thief which bled upon the cross with Thee

Was more ally’d in consanguinity.