Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Amenophis and Other Poems (1892). II. An Incident at MendrisioFrancis Turner Palgrave (18241897)
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I
The Day thrice-blest, when He,
The Love uniting God with Man,
Hung on the Tree:—
A vacant space was made,
With reverent touch the village hands
His Image laid;
Yet this rude craftsman’s heart
With deeper passion stamp’d the wood
Than finer art.
Bronze-wrinkled crone, and maid,
Fathers with sons; the lame, the blind,
Where Christ was laid.
Their Saviour’s riven Side,
The Hands, the Feet, the bleeding Heart
For us Who died.
The little maiden sweet,
Who climbs and trembles to the Cross
With fervent feet?
Who clomb the Temple-stair,
God given, given back to God,
Pure, sacred, fair.
Upon the Face she throws;
The innocent breath with love is warm,
Sweet as the rose.
Outrun thy knowledge dim,
E’en on God’s throne that eager love
Is dear to Him.