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GIFTS TO JESUS.
Take, Lord, these gifts, small offerings of our hand,Though their own worth acceptance none command:
Take, and while taking them, Thou Saviour sweet,
E'en what Thou takest, Thou wilt render meet:
Whether Thou deem them worthy eye or touch,
Thou wilt be able, Lord, to make them such;
Kind e'en to gifts themselves, as to those giving,
Thou givest, both when giving and receiving.
Translated from Crashaw's “Epigrammata Sacra.” See the “Complete Works of Richard Crashaw,” (vol. ii. p. 203,) in “The Fuller's Worthies' Library” of my friend the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, St. George's, Blackburn, for which edition the present writer has had the privilege of being a fellow-worker in the “labour of love” of translating Crashaw's Sacred Latin Poems.
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