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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“Let us go forth, therefore, unto Him without the camp,
bearing His reproach.”
The goat, for the Lord's household to atone,
Bleeding and slain upon the altar lay,
As the most Sacred Body on this day:
The living goat, which, when all else was done,
Was let go to the wilderness unknown,
“Bearing the sins of many,” did portray
The Sacred Soul, which suffered such dismay
And sorrow, and from sight of men was gone.
Victims on which were laid the sins of men
Polluted and polluting were, and then
“Without the gate,” as some accursed thing,
Cast forth: and surely this Sin-offering
Were one accepted, and of boundless price,
If shame and pain can mark a sacrifice.
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