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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“God is Love.”
Love amid sufferings seen; oh, wondrous sight!
Unearthly Love, the everlasting Fire,
His Head encircled with the bleeding brier,
Amid His foes with strange unharming might,
Consumes not, but sends forth celestial light,
Feeding on heaped-up ills; thence to aspire,
With ampler volume, higher still and higher
Upward into its native Infinite;
Building upon the woes which men have feared
A ladder whereon saints to Heaven may rise.
By mystic staff brought forth to human eyes,
Thus, feeding on the sacrifice, appeared
Flames from the rock, and as they upward veered,
The angel sought therein his native skies.
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