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Bring the thrilling scene Home to thine inmost soul:—the sufferer’s cry, “Father, if it be possible, this cup Take thou away.—Yet not my will but thine:” The sleeping friends who could not watch one hour, The torch, the flashing sword, the traitor’s kiss, The astonished angel, with the tear of Heaven Upon his cheek, still striving to assuage Those fearful pangs that bowed the Son of God, Like a bruised reed. Thou who hast power to look Thus at Gethsemane, be still! be still! What are thine insect-woes, compared to His Who agonizeth there? Count thy brief pains As the dust atom on life’s chariot-wheels, And in a Saviour’s grief forget them all.
Bring the thrilling scene Home to thine inmost soul:—the sufferer’s cry, “Father, if it be possible, this cup Take thou away.—Yet not my will but thine:” The sleeping friends who could not watch one hour, The torch, the flashing sword, the traitor’s kiss, The astonished angel, with the tear of Heaven Upon his cheek, still striving to assuage Those fearful pangs that bowed the Son of God, Like a bruised reed. Thou who hast power to look Thus at Gethsemane, be still! be still! What are thine insect-woes, compared to His Who agonizeth there? Count thy brief pains As the dust atom on life’s chariot-wheels, And in a Saviour’s grief forget them all.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Mrs. Sigourney (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 244 · printed citation: Mrs. Sigourney · subject: GARDEN—EDEN—GETHSEMANE
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