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On The Still Surviving Marks Of Our Saviours

Richard Crashaw

Whatever story of their cruelty,
Or nail, or thorn, or spear have writ in Thee,
Are in another sense
Still legible ;
Sweet is the difference :
Once I did spell
Every red letter
A wound of Thine ;
Now, what is better,
Balsam for mine.

(C) Richard Crashaw
03/25/2017


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