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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] |