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

To Pontius washing His Hands

Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–1649)

MATT. XXVII. 24.

THY hands are washt; but O, the water’s spilt

That labour’d to have washt thy guilt:

The flood, if any can, that can suffice;

Must have its fountain in thine eyes.