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Stretched on the cross, the Saviour dies, Hark! his expiring groans arise! See, how the sacred crimson tide Flows from his hands, his feet, his side. But life attends the deathful sound, And flows from every bleeding wound; The vital stream, how free it flows, To save and cleanse his rebel foes! Lord! didst thou bleed? for sinners bleed? And could the sun behold the deed? No! he withdrew his sickening ray, And darkness veiled the mourning day.
Stretched on the cross, the Saviour dies, Hark! his expiring groans arise! See, how the sacred crimson tide Flows from his hands, his feet, his side. But life attends the deathful sound, And flows from every bleeding wound; The vital stream, how free it flows, To save and cleanse his rebel foes! Lord! didst thou bleed? for sinners bleed? And could the sun behold the deed? No! he withdrew his sickening ray, And darkness veiled the mourning day.
Approximate author period: c. 1700 AD · early modern
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- Sir Richard Steele
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- Approximate author period: c. 1700 AD · early modern
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 81 · printed citation: Steele · subject: BLOOD
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