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[Transcriptions are not provided for noncanonical poems, elegies on Donne by other authors, or prose compositions] |
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The Cross. |
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Since Christ embrac'd the Cross it self, dare I |
His image, th'image of his Cross deny? |
Would I have profit by the Sacrifice, |
And dare the chosen Altar to despise? |
It bore all other sins, but is it fit |
That it should bear the sin of scorning it? |
Who from the picture would avert his eye, |
How would he flie his pains, who there did die? |
From me, no Pulpit, nor misgrounded law, |
Nor scandal taken shall this Cross with-draw, |
It shall not, for it cannot; for, the loss |
Of this Cross, were to me another Cross; |
Better were worse, for no affliction |
No Cross is so extreme, as to have none:
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[CW: Who] |