The Altar or, Meditations in Verse On The Great Christian Sacrifice By The Author of "The Cathedral," [i.e. Isaac Williams] |
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“Wherefore art Thou red in Thine apparel, and Thy garments
like him that treadeth in the wine-fat?”
Who cometh with His garments dyed in blood
From Edom and from Bozrah? Who is able
From death and hell,—which unassailable,
With walls defying heaven so long have stood,—
To save? In His own wondrous solitude
He comes, beyond all lore or ancient fable,
In His strength travelling unapproachable.
The flesh cannot discern the Only Good,
Apparell'd thus in His own conquest day.
Yea, 'mong themselves the very angels say,
“Lo, who is this that cometh? Who is He
Whose Name is Secret?” They who shall attend
His conquering march, shall answer to the end,
“To know that Name is immortality.”
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