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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“To set up on high those that be low; that those which
mourn may be exalted to safety.”
The Cross is lifted up on Calvary's height,
And we thereby are lifted up to Heaven;
Such earth-redeeming power therein is given.
The beasts may earthward bend their lowering sight,
But man doth bear his countenance upright,
That he may gaze upon the Cross and live,
And our affections so may upward strive,
Taking their wing from thence and power of flight
To Heaven. O Form of everlasting fire,
Fed by the anointing of the oil of love,
Be Thou within us, that we never tire,
By stern self-sacrifice sustain'd above;
But still our busy thoughts may upward move,
And ever to their heavenly home aspire.
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