W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895.
The Passover in the Holy Family
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (18281882)(For a Drawing)
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And day prefigured. ‘Eating, thou shalt stand,
Feet shod, loins girt, thy road-staff in thine hand,
With blood-stained door and lintel,’—did God say
By Moses’ mouth in ages passed away.
And now where this poor household doth comprise
At Paschal feast two kindred families,—
Lo! the slain lamb confronts the Lamb to slay.
What shadow of death the Boy’s fair brow subdues
Who holds that blood wherewith the porch is stain’d,
By Zachary the priest? John binds the shoes
He deemed himself not worthy to unloose;
And Mary culls the bitter herbs ordained.