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Christ, when he died, Denied the cross, And on death’s side, Threw all the loss: The captive world awak’d and found The prisoners loose, the jailor bound. O dear and sweet dispute, ’Twixt death’s and love’s far different fruit, Different as far As antidotes and poisons are: By the first fatal tree, Both life and liberty Were sold and slain; By this, they both look up and live again. O strange mysterious strife, Of open death and hidden life! When on the cross my kind did bleed, Life seemed to die, death died indeed.
Christ, when he died, Denied the cross, And on death’s side, Threw all the loss: The captive world awak’d and found The prisoners loose, the jailor bound. O dear and sweet dispute, ’Twixt death’s and love’s far different fruit, Different as far As antidotes and poisons are: By the first fatal tree, Both life and liberty Were sold and slain; By this, they both look up and live again. O strange mysterious strife, Of open death and hidden life! When on the cross my kind did bleed, Life seemed to die, death died indeed.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Richard Crawshaw (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 158 · printed citation: Richard Crawshaw · subject: CROSS—CRUCIFIXION
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