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Book: Divine Epigrams

• Two Went up into the Temple to Pray

  Two went to pray? O rather say
  One went to brag, th' other to pray:

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• On the Baptized Ethiopian

  Let it no longer be a forlorn hope
  To wash an Ethiop :

  6 lines
• On the Prodigal

  Tell me, bright boy, tell me, my golden lad,
  Whither away so frolic ? why so glad ?

  4 lines
• But Men Loved Darkness rather than Light

  The world's light shines, shine as it will,
  The world will love its darkness still.

  4 lines
• On the Sepulchre of our Lord

  Here, where our Lord once laid his Head,
  Now the grave lies buried.

  2 lines
• On the Miracle of the Multiplied Loaves

  See here an easy feast that knows no wound,
  That under hunger's teeth will needs be sound;

  4 lines
• On the Water of our Lord's Baptism

  Each blest drop on each blest limb,
  Is wash't itself, in washing Him :

  4 lines
• To our Lord, upon the Water Made Wine

  Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life,
          Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of thy reign,

  3 lines
• The Widow's Mites

  Two mites, two drops, yet all her house and land,
  Fall from a steady heart, though trembling hand :

  5 lines
• Samson to his Delilah

  Could not once blinding me, cruel, suffice?
  When first I look'd on thee, I lost mine eyes.

  2 lines
• On the still surviving Marks of our Saviour's

  Whatever story of their cruelty,
  Or nail, or thorn, or spear have writ in Thee,

  10 lines

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by Richard Crashaw

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