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Thou palsied earth, with noon-day night o’erspread; Thou sickening sun, so dark, so deep, so red! Ye hovering ghosts, that throng the starless air, Why shakes the earth? Why fades the light? Declare! Are those His limbs, with ruthless scourges torn? His brows, all bleeding with the twisted thorn? His the pale form, the meek, forgiving eye, Raised from the cross in patient agony?
Thou palsied earth, with noon-day night o’erspread; Thou sickening sun, so dark, so deep, so red! Ye hovering ghosts, that throng the starless air, Why shakes the earth? Why fades the light? Declare! Are those His limbs, with ruthless scourges torn? His brows, all bleeding with the twisted thorn? His the pale form, the meek, forgiving eye, Raised from the cross in patient agony?
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Bishop Heber (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 160 · printed citation: Bishop Heber · subject: CROSS—CRUCIFIXION
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