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The sun beheld it—No, the shocking scene Drove back his chariot: midnight veiled his face; Not such as this; not such as nature makes; A midnight nature shuddered to behold; A midnight new! a dread eclipse (without Opposing spheres.) from her Creator’s frown! Sun! didst thou fly thy Maker’s pain? or start At that enormous load of human guilt, Which bowed his blessed head; o’erwhelmed his cross; Made groan the centre; burst earth’s marble womb With pangs, strange pangs! delivered of her dead? Hell howled, and Heaven that hour let fall a tear; Heaven wept that man might smile! Heaven bled that man Might never die!
The sun beheld it—No, the shocking scene Drove back his chariot: midnight veiled his face; Not such as this; not such as nature makes; A midnight nature shuddered to behold; A midnight new! a dread eclipse (without Opposing spheres.) from her Creator’s frown! Sun! didst thou fly thy Maker’s pain? or start At that enormous load of human guilt, Which bowed his blessed head; o’erwhelmed his cross; Made groan the centre; burst earth’s marble womb With pangs, strange pangs! delivered of her dead? Hell howled, and Heaven that hour let fall a tear; Heaven wept that man might smile! Heaven bled that man Might never die!
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 158 · printed citation: Young · subject: CROSS—CRUCIFIXION
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