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II. ON MRS HOFLAND'S PICTURE OF JERUSALEM AT THE TIME OF THE CRUCIFIXION.
Jerusalem! and at the fatal hour!No need of dull and frivolous question here!
No need of human agents to make clear
The most tremendous act of human power!
The distant cross; the rent and falling tower;
The opening graves, from which the dead uprear
Their buried forms; the elemental fear
Where horrid light and horrid darkness lower;
All tell the holy tale: the mystery
And solace of our souls. Awe-struck we gaze
On that so mute yet eloquent history!
Awe-struck and sad at length our eyes we raise
To go;—yet oft return that scene to see
Too full of the great theme to think of praise.
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