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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“As many were astonied at Thee; His visage was so marred
more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men.”
O Thou, the Fount of all that's fair and good,
On Whose blest countenance, girt with bright rays,
Adoring angels and archangels gaze,
And drink unspeakable beatitude;—
Before Thy guilty creatures hast Thou stood
Thus covered with dishonour; in rude ways
Reft of that robe which did divinely blaze
On Tabor's heaven-uplifted solitude,
Which with mysterious healing did abound,
When virtue went forth through their skirts around
From That Thy sinless Body, which did wear
The sins of all the world; now stripp'd and bare,
Naked, as erst dishonouring Thy Hand
Adam in paradise did guilty stand.
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