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T H E A L T A 
 
 MEDITATIONS IN VERSE 
 
 Cfoe (great C&rfetfan Sacrifice. 
 
 AUTHOR OF " THE CATHEDRAL," ETC. 
 
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ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 It was an ancient custom with devotional writers 
 of the Eoman Catholic Church, to connect medita- 
 tions and prayers on the circumstances of our 
 Loed's Passion with the various parts of the 
 Eucharistic Service ; and this they did by a con- 
 tinued adaptation of the two carried on throughout 
 the whole. It was a foreign book, formed on this 
 system, which first drew the Writer's attention to 
 the subject, wherein the entire series of thirty-four 
 points, into which this adaptation is usually divided, 
 was drawn out in a succession of as many pictures. 
 Each of these thirty-four pictures was, moreover, 
 accompanied with another in connection with it oil 
 the adjoining page ; so that each of the thirty-four 
 was in a manner twofold. In the former part, or 
 the left-hand page, the scenes of our Loeu's Pas- 
 sion, Death, and Resurrection, by r. very beautiful 
 
VI ADVEETTSEMEET. 
 
 poetical conception were pourtrayed as in the 
 elonds of heaven in the npper division of the pic- 
 ture ? while the continued parts of the Liturgical 
 Service appeared below ; each successive point of 
 which was made to harmonize and coincide with 
 some incident in the history represented above, 
 thus brought into juxtaposition with each other, 
 The effect of this was something like that of a picture 
 placed above the altar whereon the Eucharist is being 
 celebrated; while at the same time the descend- 
 ing skies in which it appeared, gave it the mystical 
 unearthly character of an ever-present scene, as if 
 let down from the mansions of eternity, independ- 
 ent of place and time. On the page opposite to 
 each of these was introduced the corresponding series 
 of pictures, containing the prayer on the incident 
 of our Loed's Passion, together with two entire 
 figures of Apostles or Saints, each of which had 
 inserted beneath the pedestal on which it stood, a 
 sacramental Collect, such as are found attached to 
 the Festivals of Saints in the Eoman Missal. Toge- 
 ther with these were introduced such flowers or 
 emblems of nature as were connected with these 
 Saints, or the days of their celebration. This se- 
 cond series thus worked into a continued harmony 
 and association with the first, is obviously full of 
 thoughtful devotion and Divine poetry; as much 
 so as the corresponding page of the Passion and 
 Holy Eucharist. Nor can words alone express and 
 
ADVERTISEMENT. Vll 
 
 embody the living language and speaking effect of 
 the accompanying pictures and emblems : — 
 
 M Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem, 
 Quam quse sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus." 
 
 The "Writer perceived tliat there was no reason 
 why the whole of this system might not be applied 
 with equal propriety and fitness of adaptation to 
 our own Communion Service : such suggestions or 
 associations were in themselves devotional and edi- 
 fying ; while at the same time, by a similar appro- 
 priation in our own Church, it might be rendered 
 quite innocent, and free from any taint of idolatry 
 or superstition ; while, moreover, by introducing no 
 Saints but those which we receive in common with 
 ancient Christendom, it seemed to unite us in one 
 beautiful and edifying Service with "the Com- 
 munion of Saints ;" growing together into one 
 Body as partaking of that One Bread, bound toge- 
 ther in mystical union and fellowship, and "holding 
 the Head, from which all the Body having nourish- 
 ment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with 
 the increase of God." (Col. ii. 19.) 
 
 The whole series, indeed, and scheme of adapta- 
 tion, is nothing more than the drawing out into 
 separate and distinct points the very words of our 
 Loim's solemn institution, "Do this in remem- 
 brance of Me;" that "thankful remembrance of 
 His death," which our Church speaks of as the dutj 
 
Vlll ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 of every devout communicant. And when can a 
 course of meditations, at all times edifying, be so 
 suitable as at the celebration of those " holy mys- 
 teries," wherein God " vouchsafes to feed us with 
 the spiritual food of the most precious Body and 
 Blood of His Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ; 
 and doth assure us thereby of His favour and good- 
 ness towards us, and that we are very members in- 
 corporate in the mystical Body of His Son, "Which 
 is the blessed company of all faitliful people.' ' In 
 the words of Thomas a Kempis, " So great, so new, 
 ought it to seem unto thee, when thou celebratest 
 or partakest in these Holy Mysteries, as if on this 
 same day Christ hanging on the Cross did suffer 
 and die for the salvation of mankind." Or still 
 more particularly in a writer of our own Church, 
 the " Guide for the Penitent," ascribed to Bishop 
 Taylor, — " During the celebration of this holy Sa- 
 crament, attend earnestly to what is done by the 
 Priest. When he breaks the Bread, imagine to 
 yourself that you see the Body of your dear Sa- 
 viour torn and crucified ; and when he pours out 
 the Wine, consider that His Blood was thus poured 
 out upon the altar of the Cross." 
 
 Reflection, which feeds on sight, will clothe itself 
 with words ; and the beauty of any conception 
 which powerfully affects the feelings, naturally 
 seeks for vent in expression. The Writer was thus 
 led to draw out such meditations as arose from the 
 
ADVERTISEMENT. IX 
 
 contemplation of each of these pictures in a scries 
 of sonnets ; the break and variety which each pic- 
 ture supplied affording sufficient diversity for the 
 returns of the same measure, continued in nearly 
 two hundred poems. Thus picture and poetry be- 
 came combined, which gave a new character to the 
 undertaking. 
 
 In the first publication of this "Work, great disap- 
 pointment arose, not only from the imperfection of 
 the drawings, but more so from the manner in 
 which they were taken off, by one who was quite 
 unequal to the task ; so that at last it was thought 
 advisable to suppress the whole Edition, with the 
 exception of a few copies. Since that time, at- 
 tempts have been made to reproduce the illustra- 
 tions of the Work, but none of them have been 
 considered equal to the purpose. The Writer 
 himself would have been well content to sacrifice 
 artistic skill for correct devotional taste and feeling; 
 indeed everything must be inadequate to clothe 
 conceptions which are themselves far above the 
 reach of art. But although the rude emblems and 
 uncouth symbols found on the early tombs in the 
 catacombs speak a language more sublime and im- 
 pressive than the finest works of a Raphael, or Fra 
 Angelico, yet it was the privilege of the age of mar- 
 tyrs to be thus in their poverty exceeding rich ; the 
 same ideas must be conveyed in far other form and 
 expression, to be admissible in the present refined 
 age. 
 
X ADVERTISEMENT, 
 
 In the meantime the Writer has been requested 
 to publish the Poems in a separate form, which he 
 now does, -with nothing more than the mention of 
 each of the thirty-four points under which it was 
 previously arranged with the accompanying prayers. 
 Pictorial illustrations are, of course, great assist- 
 ances towards devotional feeling and thought, yet, 
 perhaps, for that very reason, such effect is not so 
 deeply and permanently beneficial, as where the 
 latent moral powers are called into action with less 
 external impulse. Further it may be added, that 
 if the subject is here introduced in a less attractive 
 form, as apart from that, as it were, scenic repre- 
 sentation, or lively realization to the senses which 
 pictures afford, this may be in itself more suited to 
 the chastened sobriety of our own Church ; at all 
 events, more agreeable to her condition at present, 
 and may be considered to correspond with sacred 
 services in which the accompanying music or chant 
 ceases. "I became dumb, and opened not my 
 mouth ; for it was Thy doing." 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 SUBJECTS PAGE 
 
 THE GATE OF GETHSEMANE I. ... 1 
 
 THE GARDEN II. . . . 7 
 
 THE CUP OF AGONY III. ... 13 
 
 THE KISS OF JUDAS IV. . . . 19 
 
 CHRIST IN BONDS V. ... 25 
 
 THE HOUSE OF ANNAS VI. . . . 31 
 
 THE FALL OF S. PETER VII. ... 37 
 
 THE PENITENT RESTORED VIII. . . 43 
 
 PILATE'S JUDGMENT-HALL IX. . . . 49 
 
 CHRIST BEFORE HEROD X. ... 55 
 
 PILATE AND HEROD RECONCILED . . . . XL . . . 6l 
 
 CHRIST STRIPPED OF HIS GARMENTS . . . XII. . . . 6? 
 
 CHRIST SCOURGED XIII. . . 73 
 
 THE CROWN OF THORNS XIV. . . 79 
 
 " BEHOLD THE MAN !" XV. ... 85 
 
 CHRIST CONDEMNED XVI. . . 91 
 
 PILATE WASHING HIS HANDS XVII. . . 97 
 
 CHRIST BEARING THE CROSS XVIII. . . 103 
 
 THE MOURNING WOMEN XIX. . . 109 
 
Xll CONTENTS. 
 
 SUBJECTS PAGE 
 
 THE NAILING TO THE CROSS XX. ... 115 
 
 THE CROSS LIFTED UP XXI. . . 121 
 
 THE CROSS DROPPING BLOOD XXII. . . 127 
 
 CHRIST PRAYS FOR HIS ENEMIES .... XXIII. . . 133 
 
 THE PROMISE OF PARADISE XXIV. . . 139 
 
 THE BLESSED VIRGIN AND S. JOHN . . . XXV. . . 145 
 
 CHRIST EXPIRING ON THE CROSS .... XXVI. . . 151 
 
 CHRIST'S BODY ON THE CROSS XXVII. . . 157 
 
 THE BURIAL OF CHRIST XXVIII. . 163 
 
 THE COVERING OF CHRIST'S BODY .... XXIX. . . 169 
 
 CHRIST RISEN XXX. . . 175 
 
 CHRIST APPEARING XXXI. . . 181 
 
 THE FORTY DAYS XXXII.. . 18/ 
 
 THE ASCENSION XXXIIL, . 193 
 
 THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT . . . XXXIV. . 199 
 
Cljris't approaching tty ©aiKen of ©etf)4emanr. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Sox of the living God, Who 
 didst begin in the hour of thy passion to be sore 
 amazed, and exceeding sorrowful even unto death ; 
 grant me, i pray thee, to devote unto thee all my 
 griefs : unite them, o god of my heart, to thine own 
 sadnesses and afflictions, that through the merits 
 of Thy passion they may be profitable to my salva- 
 tion BOTH IN SOUL AND BODY. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 O)* irntroit, or approach) to tf)e Stttar. 
 
THE ALTAR 
 
 i. 
 
 THE GATE OF GETHSBMANE. 
 
 1. 
 
 11 I was left alone, — and there remained no strength in me." 
 
 Lord, AYho for us wert pleased to appear, 
 Shorn of Thy glories on that dreadful night, 
 And in that terrible eclipse of light 
 
 To know the agonies of mortal fear, 
 
 In human sympathies thus to draw near 
 
 To us Thy creatures ; — and e'en now in sight 
 Entering the cloud of sorrows infinite 
 
 At that dread gate of anguish, black and drear. 
 Didst bid Thy friends adieu, while far below. 
 
 Cedron, that brook of sorrows,* fled away, 
 Sighing in dark affright ; — in all our woe 
 Be with us, when beneath th' approaching rod 
 
 Of our own sins we tremble, in that day 
 
 "When man must stand alone to meet his God. 
 
 * Conf. 2 Sam. xv. 23, 30 ; S. John xviii. 1 , 
 B 2 
 
4 THE GATE OF GE Til SE MAKE. 
 
 2. 
 
 " Thine eyes are upon me, and I am not." 
 
 In these Thy sad bereavements, stripp'd of all, 
 Thon showest in Thyself great Nature's law, 
 Whereby, as sinful man doth onward draw 
 
 To God his Maker, and doth hear His call, 
 
 He turns into corruption ; all things fall 
 Prom off him and depart, with silent awe, 
 As if the Invisible he nearer saw, 
 
 Whose Presence guilty Nature doth appal ; — 
 Which doth recoil with horror at the brink, 
 And in herself again in silence shrink ; — 
 
 Por death is but the unclothing of the soul ; 
 
 As it approaches Him, its final goal, 
 Earthly adherences turn to decay, 
 His Spirit on them blows, # — they pass away. 
 
 3. 
 
 " They feared as they entered into the cloud.'' 
 
 Where else but in Thy sorrows shall we find 
 The healing of our own, in that deep fear 
 Which flesh is heir to ; in the coming near 
 
 Of that dread hour, when we must leave behind 
 
 Those who have grown into our inner mind, 
 Associates by our pilgrimage made dear, 
 To enter that dark cloud, where eye and ear, 
 
 To scenes without are closed, and have resigned 
 The things of day and night, with keener senso 
 
 To open to the things which are within ; — 
 To that unearthly stillness, more intense, 
 
 Where man must meet his Maker, and be known, 
 
 Commune and answer with his GrOD alone, 
 Of judgment, and of sorrow, and of sin. 
 
 * Isaiah xl. 7. 
 
THE GATE OF GKETHSEMA1TE. 
 
 11 Lord, it is good for us to be here." 
 
 Then with Thy Finger and Thy Blood imbue 
 This lesson on the tables of our heart, 
 Which often all in vain Thy words impart, 
 That we to earthly friends must bid adieu 
 In heaven-ward turn'd affection; keep in view 
 This night of Thy sad parting ; and thence know 
 The art to hold more loosely all below, 
 Lest with ourselves the loss of them we rue. 
 
 So may we better learn to be with Thee, — 
 Not when Thy visage was with glory starr'd 
 On Tabor, but with awful sorrows marr'd, 
 Thy Father's countenance from Thee debarr'd, — 
 To share Thy griefs, and with that favour' d three 
 Enter the gate of sad Grethsemane. 
 
 5. 
 
 " Enter thou into thy chamber, and shut thy doors about 
 thee : hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the 
 indignation be overpast." 
 
 But onward yet — a little onward still — 
 
 Must we withdraw from kindred and from friends 
 To know that mystery which thought transcends : 
 
 Therefore so oft to wilderness or hill 
 
 Did our High- Priest retire, Who knew no ill, 
 To teach that he who 'neath the burden bends 
 Of sore transgressions, — knowing not the ends 
 
 Of love or hate,* which shall the chalice fill 
 Of his eternity, — hath so great need 
 
 To seek for refuge, that he must forego 
 
 And cast aside all shadows, which below 
 The undisturbed vision may impede 
 Of that unseen hereafter ; and give heed 
 
 To those realities he soon must know. 
 
 * Eccles. ix. 1. 
 
b THE GATE OF GETHSEMA^E. 
 
 6. 
 
 " Thou art a place to hide me in.'' 
 
 And therefore now, in this dread interval, 
 Ere we in judgment before God appear, 
 Whene'er I to Thine altar would draw near, 
 
 In solemn preparations would I call 
 
 On solitude and silence ; and from all 
 
 Withdrawn, which wakens here love, hope, or 
 
 fear, 
 Commune alone with mine own self, and hear 
 
 Thine awful whisper in the judgment -hall 
 Of mine own secret soul, that cavern deep 
 Whence issue streams of life. So may I weep, 
 
 And in Thy tabernacle long to hide 
 
 From the world, from myself, and from my sin ; 
 
 And where the door is open in Thy side, 
 With eager arms outstretching, enter in. 
 
C^vtst iincrftng. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Sox of the living God, Who in 
 Thy prayer wast pleased to be strengthened by an 
 Angel ; grant that through virtue of that same 
 prayer of Thine, Thy holy Angel may ever be at 
 hand to assist me in all my supplications and 
 
 PRAYERS. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 Eijc Eortfa grager. 
 
II. 
 
 THE GARDEX. 
 
 " The Lord is in His holy temple ; let all the earth keep 
 silence before Him." 
 
 The stars are silent o'er our heads above, 
 The graves are silent 'neath our feet below, 
 And silent are the deepest thoughts we know ; 
 
 Silent our God, in Whom we live and move ; 
 
 And silent the unutterable Love 
 
 That pleads for man, while he still to and fro 
 In busy noise and loud tumultuous show 
 
 Is hurrying day by day, as if lie strove 
 
 To drown that Voice which to his heart is given; 
 
 Yet wheresoe'er Thy Spirit wakes him, there 
 Is stillness as of stars in summer even. 
 
 Thus round Thine unseen throne still everywhere 
 
 Unutterable silence speaks Thy prayer. 
 
 " Thy will be done on earth, as 'tis in Heaven." 
 
10 THE GARDEN. 
 
 2. 
 
 " He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied." 
 
 " Father, not Mine own will, but Thine be clone," 
 Thrice spoken, and in speaking thrice fulfill' d; 
 And so whate'er the Human nature will'd 
 
 Is lost in the Divine, and made all one, 
 
 In perfect love and perfect union : 
 
 The o'errunning cup is drain' d, no drop is spill' d, 
 Each thought in perfect resignation still' d : 
 
 The beatific crown for us is won, — 
 
 The Manhood join'd to G-odhead. Thus to grieve ! 
 Thus even from a creature to receive 
 
 One gleam of consolation sent from heaven, 
 One drop to lighten that o'erwhelming cup, 
 Or strengthen the weak Hand that raises up 
 
 The bitter chalice, — which to us is given ! 
 
 " A sore burden, too heavy for me to bear.'' 
 
 Given to us sinners, our due penalty, — 
 
 But ta'en by Him and drunk for all mankind : 
 
 And worse than bleeding scourge or thorn en- 
 twin' d, 
 The wounded spirit's secret agony, 
 Which yields itself to death, yet dreads to die. 
 
 There is a weight upon each mortal mind ; 
 
 The good, to their own burden oft resign' d, 
 To bear some brother's burden fain would try ; 
 
 But He doth bear the burden of us all. 
 Yet why that lamentable thrilling moan ? 
 
 The earth is weak, and trembling to her fall, 
 And her inhabitants are feeble grown, 
 
 Like wither' d leaves at winter's early call : 
 He beareth up its pillars all alone. 
 
TIIE GARDEN. 11 
 
 "Why shouldest Thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty- 
 man that cannot save ?" 
 
 Yea, where else shall we find a solitude 
 Equal to this ; in this His paradise, 
 In this the garden of His agonies, 
 Wherein alone the Second Adam stood, 
 Wherein alone He kneel' d down, sweating blood — 
 From Him withdrawn all human sympathies, 
 And bliss Divine all hidden from His eyes, 
 In wrath for our transgressions ! Only good, 
 He bows beneath the wickedness of all, 
 And prays like some sin-burden' d criminal : 
 While groans of sick creation through all time, 
 And all the woes that flow'cl from Adam's crime, 
 Concentrate were in that dread agony, 
 And found their utterance in that sad cry. 
 
 5. 
 
 11 I have trodden the wine-press alone.' ' 
 
 Thus our High- Priest enters the holy place 
 With His Own Blood to intercede ; and now, 
 Calls us to join with Him, and leaves below 
 
 His prayer, and His example, and His grace ; — 
 
 His Spirit in our hearts, in this short space 
 
 Given for repentance. Thus He bids us know 
 His groanings of unutterable woe, # 
 
 And 'neath the cloud of God's averted face 
 
 Mourns in our heart of hearts. O awful scene ! 
 
 Where our High-Priest, as if within the vail, 
 By us below is interceding seen, 
 
 In that dark night of anguish kneeling pale, 
 
 With crying, and with tears, and failing breath, 
 Pleading with Him Who can redeem from death. t 
 
 * Rom.viii. 26. f Heb. v. 7. 
 
12 THE GARDEN. 
 
 6. 
 
 " He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath 
 borne it upon him. He putteth his mouth in the dust ; if so 
 be there may be hope." 
 
 Lord, unto me Thy warning Voice reveal, 
 
 Lest the world steal my heart, and hide the theft ; 
 But, of her soft appliances bereft, 
 
 May I in that bereavement learn to feel 
 
 That one thing still is given me — thus to kneel 
 And be as Thou ; that one thing still is left — 
 That where Thy Flesh is rent, the Rock is cleft, 
 
 Thy Hand may for a while from man conceal 
 "What I am now, what I have been before. 
 
 And I, if I may find a refuge there, 
 
 May oft and oft repeat that holy Prayer, 
 Closing the door ; and while I thus explore 
 The deeps of sad self-knowledge, more and more 
 
 Humiliation learn, but not despair. 
 
Ctyvfet fallen to tlje grotmtf. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who when in the garden 
 being in an agony, didst pray more earnestly unto 
 the Father, when Thy sweat became, in a wonderful 
 manner, as it were great drops of blood falling 
 down to the ground ; grant that, in memory of that 
 Thy Passion, I may be so conformed unto Thee, as 
 to be filled with the sweetness of thy love ; and 
 instead of blood may be enabled to pour forth tears 
 in Thy sight. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 Collect for purity of Ijeart — " dfrorn ZMjom no 
 Secrets are IjttiL" 
 
III. 
 
 THE CUP OF AGONY. 
 1. 
 
 11 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled 
 in me. This I recal to mind, therefore have I hope." 
 
 Teach me with Thee to mourn, — from Thee to 
 learn 
 
 The comfort of the mourner # on that clay : 
 
 From Thy pure Presence let one piercing ray 
 Lighten our darkness, that I may discern 
 And with that inextinguish'd fire may burn 
 
 The foul black spots within me, — sins that weigh 
 
 With burden of an infinite dismay 
 On Thy sad soul, that knows not where to turn 
 
 From the big load of our unnumber'd sins, 
 Which comes upon Thy spirit's solitude, 
 
 As when some storm-fraught thunder-cloud be- 
 gins, 
 Falling upon the ground with drops of blood. 
 
 Oh, bind me to Thine altar, that no more 
 
 I add each day I liye to that sad store. 
 
 * S.Matt.v. 4. 
 
16 THE CUP OF AGO^Y. 
 
 " If it die, it bringeth forth much fruit '' 
 
 " In sweat of thine own brow thon shalt eat bread ;" 
 This was man's penalty ; and here he lies, 
 Driven from that Garden of his Paradise, — 
 Here in the wilderness, as one half dead, 
 With sweat of Blood upon His Body shed, 
 That we may in that costly Sacrifice 
 Eat of Life's Bread, and know its countless price, 
 With bitter herbs and sorrow. While onr Head 
 Is thus bow'd low nnto the very ground, 
 Oh, may we learn the lesson most profound 
 Contain' d in that His prayer ; and from the sight 
 Know that mysterious penalty aright — 
 
 The cost of that true Bread His death shall give, 
 Whereof alone lost man can eat and live ! 
 
 o. 
 
 " Not as the world giveth, give I unto you.'" 
 
 Then take Thou us beneath those sheltering wings, 
 Where God and Man at every bleeding pore 
 Hath open'd for our sins Thy pardon's door ; 
 
 We touch, see, feel our God, while memory clings 
 
 To every part which meditation brings 
 Before us ; thus the cup that noweth o'er 
 With these Thy sorrows is for evermore 
 
 The cup wherein our health and gladness springs. 
 The cup we give to Thee is deadly wine, 
 
 Made of the poisonous grapes our sins have borne ; 
 Thou givest in return the cup Divine, 
 
 Full of Thy love ; and for the thorny crown 
 
 We give to Thee, Thou givest to Thine own 
 Wreaths bright with radiance of celestial morn. 
 
THE CUP OF AGO>~Y. 17 
 
 4. 
 
 " Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth." 
 
 For me, then, is this awful Sacrifice, 
 
 That Thou art drooping low, and dropping blood, 
 
 In this the stillness and the solitude 
 Of that dread hour, and every drop the price 
 Of thousand souls ; and yet returning thrice, 
 
 In love for those who in an hour so rude 
 
 Were sleeping 'neath that dark green olive-wood, 
 With that still quiet voice of meek advice ! 
 
 With wayward man He ever gently pleads, 
 But forces not his will, though standing by : 
 
 And yet for him, e'en while He speaks, He bleeds 
 At every vein, as seeing dangers nigh, 
 While he unconscious looks up vacantly, 
 
 And nought discerns, then sleeps, and little 
 heeds. 
 
 11 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch." 
 
 Within the lowest deep a lower deep 
 Receives the penitent in true self-hate, 
 Whose heart the thoughts of Thee shall pene- 
 trate ; 
 
 Who more and more would fain his bosom steep 
 
 With rays of light from heaven, and wake to weep 
 The sins that fold themselves in our dark state, 
 Lest that e'en now our foes be at the gate, # 
 
 And at our going hence arouse from sleep, 
 And summon ns to bondage. While our eyes 
 
 Are weigh' d down by a seeming false repose 
 
 By spirits of darkness, He our danger knows. 
 
 But from this fathomless abyss of woes 
 
 Who shall raise up the Maker of the skies, 
 Fall'n to the ground in speechless agonies ? 
 
 * Psalm cxxvii. 6. 
 C 
 
18 THE CUP OF AGOKY. 
 
 1 ' Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark ; let it look for 
 light, but have none." 
 
 Thus hast Thou from Thy Father's bosom come 
 To empty all Thy glories, aud from sight 
 Of Thine own Godhead every drop of light 
 
 Shut out, to take on Thee a sinner's doom ! 
 
 ]N"o star of light amid the o'erwhehning gloom ; 
 Save when upon the blackness of that night, 
 
 Which compass' d Thee as with a living tomb, 
 One little streak grew brighter and more bright, 
 
 An angel's wing, like one soft crystal spar 
 
 Of light from heaven. But now that gentle star 
 
 Is scared and fled, for up the steep afar 
 
 There gleam sulphureous torches lit from hell : 
 The lights in heaven are all invisible, 
 And rising Moon withdraws into her cell. 
 
CJjrfet turns to meet &M enemies. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who didst suffer the kiss of 
 the traitor Judas; mayest Thou never have to say of 
 me, Behold the hand of him that betrayeth Me is 
 with Me on the table ; nor may I ever deny the 
 offices of holy love to those who slander me. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 Cfje priest turns from tlje attar to tyt people. 
 
 <: 2 
 
IV. 
 
 THE KISS OF JUDAS. 
 
 1. 
 
 " First be reconciled to thy brother." 
 
 Ahd now, from pleading with Thy God above, 
 To us who eaus'd Thy death, resign' d to die, 
 Thou turnest, veiling all Thy majesty 
 
 That we may come to Thee ; with words that prove, 
 
 Or tender offices that fain would move 
 Affectionate returns, and bring us nigh. 
 Let not this day of Thy humility 
 
 Tempt us to tread beneath our feet Thy love ; 
 But if Thou to Thy Table wilt receive, 
 Let nought within us Thy good Spirit grieve ; 
 
 But wash us clean as guests to sit with Thee ; 
 
 Grant us the nuptial robe of Charity. 
 And feet with holy preparation shod, 
 Lest we for Esau's portion sell our God. 
 
22 THE KISS or JF/DAS. 
 
 " The blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than 
 that of Abel." 
 
 The gentle Lamb that licks the slaughterer's hand — 
 "With kiss of peace to the arch-traitor given, 
 And meekly laid the healing touch of Heaven 
 
 On that fierce leader of the midnight band ! 
 
 "When one word only would at Thy command 
 Scatter as chaff before the whirlwind driven ; 
 Or. as the lightning opes the summer even, 
 
 Disclose the angelic hosts which round Thee stand ; 
 Thou meekly didst Thy victim head incline, 
 ALid tenderest offices of love Divine ; 
 
 True Abel, offering up Thyself to die 
 
 Into fraternal hands ! Not yet is dry 
 
 The Blood in mercy pleading from the ground 
 For those who now with murderous hands sur- 
 round. 
 
 3. 
 •• Fear ye not : stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord.' ' 
 
 But that good Galilean, brave and bold, 
 
 Arm'd for heroic deeds of high emprise, 
 
 Has yet to learn his Master's charities, 
 Where disenthrall' d from Judas' treacherous hold 
 On ALalchus' ear He lays His hand, now cold 
 
 ^vTith death's dank sweat, and lifts in prayer His 
 eyes. 
 
 But other thoughts in Peter's breast arise 
 Than doth become the shepherd of the fold, 
 
 TThile love and courage all his bosom fires. — 
 Ready to go to prison and to death. 
 
 Be still, and check awhile thy high desires ; 
 Put up again thy sword within its sheath ; 
 
 One little thing alone thy Loed requires, — 
 Xot to denv Him at a woman's breath. 
 
THE KISS 01 JUDAS. 2o 
 
 4. 
 • ' Look how high the heaven is in comparison of the earth. ' ' 
 
 Thus tamest Thou to us. as if to show 
 
 The unspeakable example of God's love ; 
 
 High as heaven's pillars rise the earth above, 
 hat surpasseth all the love we know. 
 And all our bounds of mercy doth o'erflow. 
 
 His malice and Thy love together strove. 
 
 As if uncertain which at last should prove 
 Master in that contention. Still e'en now 
 
 "Warning and watching in kind ministry. 
 Washing his feet, and giving the true Bread. 
 
 And the last kiss of love ; — yet all for nought. 
 
 O love to perfect cons:.. i brought, 
 
 A w illin g Victim thus led forth to die 
 
 For them by whom His holy Blood is shed ! 
 
 '• Greet ye one another with a kiss of cb 
 
 This lamb -like spirit and this hallow' d kiss 
 
 Admitted to Thine altars thus of old,* 
 
 The symbol, rite, and passport to the fold : 
 Union of souls which knew the chasten' d bliss 
 Of mutual pardon given, nor thought amiss. 
 
 Pledge of true love, that turneth all to gold. 
 
 E'en like that tabled rod in story told : 
 This is that love that hallows all things : this 
 
 The odorous spikenard o^ the costly price. 
 "WTiose fragrance fills the world unto the end ; 
 
 The salt that seasons every sacrifice ; 
 The fire which on the altar doth descend ; 
 That love's communion sweet, which cannot blend 
 
 With hearts that harbour deadly avarice. 
 
 * See S. Cyril's Lectures, sarin* 3. 
 
24 THE KISS OE JUDAS. 
 
 " God is love ; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, 
 and God in him." 
 
 True Love, which hopeth all things, all things 
 beareth, 
 
 Fairest of all that have walked forth on earth, 
 
 And left the calm of heaven where she had birth, 
 Humility's first-born, — for she appeareth 
 Like Mercy's self, what time from heaven she 
 heareth 
 
 Repentance's meek prayer, and leaneth down. 
 
 Of all the graces origin and crown ; — 
 True love of GrOD, which loving ever feareth, 
 
 So feareth that she feareth nought beside 
 
 With that fear which hath torment. Of the 
 Bride 
 Bright robe, and image of the Father's love ; 
 
 As when within some little watery sheen 
 Dwells the reflection of the heavens above, 
 
 And the Moon walks the cloudless deep serene. 
 
Cljrtet left bounfc ftp ti)e Sfefo*. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who wast willing to be bound 
 
 BY THE HANDS OF WICKED MEN FOR OUR SAKES ; LOOSE ME 
 FROM THE CHAINS OF MY SINS, AND LET MY SOUL AND MY 
 BODY BE SO STRONGLY HOLDEN BY THE LOVE OF THY COM- 
 MANDMENTS, THAT I MAY EVER IN ALL THINGS OBEY THY 
 BLESSED WILL. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 Ci)e Cm Commandments. 
 
V. 
 CHRIST IX BOXDS, 
 
 1, 
 
 " Mine eiiemies are driven back ; they shall fall and perish 
 at Thy presence." 
 
 The quiet night, wherein no sound was heard 
 Save that meek prayer to sorrow reconcil'd, 
 To sounds discordant wakes, and tumult wild 
 
 Of banded foes approaching : Night's lone bird 
 
 By lantern, torch, and noise unwonted stirr'd, 
 Flaps overhead his wing, with movement mild, 
 Yet terror strikes in souls by guilt defil'd ; 
 
 The power of darkness reigns ; fears long interr'd 
 Bise up and walk the gloom : His words have 
 thrill'd 
 
 To hearts which no misgiving knew before ; 
 A spell unspeakable hath all things still' d, 
 And unimagined awfulness hath till'd : 
 
 Those words have power to stop the ocean's roar, 
 
 And wake the dead that they shall sleep no more. 
 
28 CHRIST EN" BOXDS. 
 
 11 The Breath of our nostrils, the Anointed of the Lord, was 
 taken in their pits." 
 
 A momentary terror seem'd to steep 
 
 Their senses, and a felt unearthly power 
 Before their lowly Victim made them cower — 
 
 Like pause that ushers in the thunders deep. 
 
 But now the spirits of darkness o'er them lower, 
 And turn their tongues to triumph, as they creep 
 Nigh to the city's gates, which guilty sleep 
 
 Stills to false slumbers in its destined hour. 
 Now gibe they cast, and scoff, and blasphemy 
 
 On the Divinest Stranger. He doth yield 
 To rudest violence His harmless Head, 
 Like a defenceless Lamb to slaughter led, 
 
 That He may o'er us cast His sheltering shield, 
 And from nocturnal terrors set us free. 
 
 u Thou hast led captivity captive.' ' 
 
 Thou art thus captive led our hearts to move, 
 And draw us unto Thee, that we our hands 
 May yield, and on our necks put Thy love-bands ; 
 
 For Thy commandments thus as cords may prove 
 
 To lead us to that city's gates above, — 
 
 That city which is paved with Thy commands, 
 The gold and agate of celestial lands. 
 
 For heaviest chains are render' d light by love ; 
 And therefore art Thou thus all rudely bound, 
 
 That we may in our bonds remember Thee ; 
 And Thee remembering, ever may be found 
 
 Thy willing captives rather than be free 
 With the bad world — the fuller to abound 
 
 In Thy blest gift of heavenly liberty. 
 
CIIEIST IK BOXDS. 29 
 
 4. 
 
 44 The year of My redeemed is come." 
 
 wonderful fulfilment ! is this He 
 
 Who comes clown to announce th' eternal year* 
 Of our release, to liberate from fear, 
 
 To ope the gates and set the prisoner free, 
 
 And is Himself our very Jubilee ; 
 
 Yet thus, as some bruised Captive doth appear, 
 As one weighed by oppression most severe, 
 
 And needing all the power of liberty ! 
 
 Thus He Himself, O wondrous sight ! is found 
 With darkness and with chains encompass' d 
 
 round, 
 Who comes to pour the light on blinded eyes. 
 Yet thus it is He brings to earth the skies, 
 That wheresoe'er a prisoner now remains 
 He may be with him in his silent chains. 
 
 5. 
 
 44 If the Son shall make you free, then are ye free indeed. tf 
 
 Yes, in the eyes of false-discerning men 
 
 A helpless captive, but meanwhile His own, 
 
 To Whom th' Almighty Father hath made known 
 
 The mysteries of things that are unseen, 
 
 Beholding Him with undisturbed ken 
 
 Discern their Gon, come down from His high 
 
 throne 
 To teach us one great lesson — one alone — 
 
 " Learn thou of Me, for I am meek," and then 
 Thou shalt, 'mid troubles, find thy spirit's rest. 
 
 Think of no other freedom but the mind 
 
 To her deservings patiently resign' d : 
 
 And thou shalt find His Godhead manifest, 
 Until the weight of sorrows makes thee blest, 
 
 Injurious provocations render kind. 
 
 * S.Lukeiv. 21. 
 
30 CHBIST IK BOKDS. 
 
 " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain 
 of tears, that I might weep day and night." 
 
 And yet while I do thus in bonds behold 
 My Maker and my Judge all lowly bent, 
 And see in Him the Great Omnipotent, 
 
 Thus bowed to bring us back unto the fold, 
 
 My sorrow is unmov'd, my heart is cold, — 
 No stern repentance hath my bosom rent ; 
 My tears long since are dried, my feelings spent, 
 
 As at a tale of this world often told. 
 Eut if I grieve at this my want of grief, 
 Thou wilt unto those sorrows bring relief 
 
 Which are from want of sorrow, and again 
 
 Kindle within my heart that living pain, — 
 Yearnings of penitential sad belief, 
 
 Which ever on my spirit may remain. 
 
Cfjrtet tn ti)e ijou^e of &nna$. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who wast taken as a criminal 
 
 INTO THE HOUSE OF ANNAS ; POUR THY GRACE INTO MY 
 HEART, THAT I MAY NOT BE ALLURED BY THE EVIL ONE 
 INTO SIN, BUT MAY BE LED BY THY HOLY SPIRIT UNTO 
 EVERY THING THAT IS WELL PLEASING UNTO THEE. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 El)e Eafo tfje IjouSe of boit&age. 
 
VI. 
 
 THE HOUSE OF ANNAS. 
 
 " By the blood of Thy covenant I have sent forth Thy pri- 
 soner out of the pit wherein is no water." 
 
 And now to make Thy bondage more secure, 
 They take Thee in triumphant mockery 
 Unto the house of Annas, standing by, 
 
 Bandying from place to place with hands impure, 
 
 To render condemnation doubly sure, 
 
 Far from all human help, and heap on high 
 The gathering load of that night's misery. 
 
 Tet Thou didst willingly those chains endure 
 Upon Thy spotless Body in Thy love, 
 If only Thou might 'st so our ransom prove, 
 
 When we before the accuser shall be brought, 
 
 Silent as criminals, and pleading nought 
 
 But the great ransom Thou for us hast wrought, 
 And the returns of love which in us move. 
 
34 THE HOUSE OE ANNAS. 
 
 2. 
 
 "Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and con- 
 tinueth therein, this man shall be blessed in his deed." 
 
 For love of Thee is our true liberty ; 
 
 And when we rightly love Thee and adore, 
 Thy law is then captivity no more, 
 
 But gladsome service most divinely free, 
 
 In perfect freedom, like the ministry 
 
 Of those in Heaven who are for ever bound 
 By blissful adoration most profound, 
 
 And know no other joy but serving Thee. 
 For then their freedom is indeed divine, 
 When doing their own will they follow Thine. 
 Thus Thy law is no bondage when within 
 Is love that giveth life ; chains wrought by sin 
 Then vanish as the ice before the sun, 
 And full of glowing life the waters run. 
 
 " Whoso committeth sin is the servant of sin." 
 
 But more and more those iron bonds increase, 
 When, setting Thy commandments all at nought, 
 In the imaginings of our own thought 
 
 We follow our own will, nor seek release. 
 
 Then if upbraidings of Thy Spirit cease, 
 'Tis that those fetters grow into the soul, 
 Part of ourselves, infect our being whole ; 
 
 Those chains become ourselves — we are at peace. 
 Then by those bonds which Thou for us didst 
 
 wear, 
 And by the blows which Thou for us didst bear — 
 When as some blood-stain' d, night-caught crimi- 
 nal 
 Within that house of bondage set in thrall, 
 Before that Pharaoh our Redemption stood, — 
 Save me from that Egyptian servitude. 
 
THE HOUSE OF A>'>'AS. 35 
 
 4. 
 
 u And the servant abideth not in the house for ever." 
 
 Thy law hath bound me with a living band, 
 And in the dead of night, when all is still, 
 E'en like a thief, with footsteps dark and chill, 
 The great accuser shall before me stand, 
 And lift against me the upbraiding hand 
 
 In presence of the Judge ; then vain the skill 
 That ever waits upon the tortuous will, 
 With ready self-deceivings at command, 
 To extricate, excuse, and to explain. 
 Nay, 'tis our will itself which is the chain 
 That binds us hand and foot, and doth remain 
 Drawing us, while we think not, to the gloom, 
 Till bondage doth itself become our home, 
 And thwarted will our everlasting doom. 
 
 5. 
 
 "I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered 
 that there was none to uphold ; therefore Mine own Arm 
 brought salvation." 
 
 I gaze, and gazing tremble at the sight, 
 
 To see Thee, Who dost sit at God's right hand, 
 Bound by an impious rabble, thus to stand 
 
 Before Thy creature ! Yet 'twas Thou this night, 
 
 In love and lowliness most infinite, 
 
 Didst kneel, to teach us this, love's last com- 
 mand, 
 And therefore now to Thee compulsion's band, 
 
 So grievous, is for our sakes sweet and light. 
 strange fulfilment of the truths enroll' d 
 In scrolls of Prophets, and set forth of old 
 Through imaged types and shadows manifold ! 
 
 Xow these are set apart. Thyself I see 
 
 The mirror made of perfect liberty, 
 
 Thyself the living Tvpe that teachest me. 
 d 2 
 
36 THE HOUSE OE ANNAS. 
 
 6. 
 
 " Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ?" 
 
 What is the lesson which these sights impart ? 
 
 That there are bonds to man invisible 
 
 Framed in Heaven, which have a mighty spell 
 To hold by secret influential art 
 Him "Who was God and Man, — to bind the heart 
 
 With meek obedience, such as none can tell ; — 
 
 Those chains are love — are love invincible, 
 Which from God's Altar suffer not to start, 
 
 Stronger than death, the love of wretched men. 
 Love was the bond that bound Thee from above, 
 
 Submissive e'en to death ; oh, wilt Thou then 
 But kindle in our hearts this, Thine own love, 
 That it an adamantine chain may prove, 
 
 Nor suffer us from Thee to fall again. 
 
Christ ttemefc bj) &. $etct\ 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Whom the chief of Apostles 
 thrice denied in the house of caiaphas ; grant that 
 i may never be found in the company of the wicked, 
 nor ever suffer me by my sins to be separated from 
 Thee. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 " iLovfc, Ijcifoe mern) upon us." 
 
VII. 
 
 THE FALL OF S. PETEE. 
 
 " I have heard the blasphemy of the multitude, and fear is 
 on every side." 
 
 High in the dim recess of that dark hall 
 The midnight conclave now before me pass, 
 Gathering around the impious Caiaphas. 
 
 Our God, Whose Word upholds this worldly ball, 
 
 Whose Presence doth Angelic hosts appal, 
 
 Stands bound ; and now the rude insulting mass 
 Press on Him ! Now, O dreadful sight, alas ! 
 
 The uplifted hand of the rough menial 
 
 Strikes on the Mouth Divine that meekly spoke 
 
 (The healed slave from Edom gave the stroke), 
 
 The hand against its Maker ! Now I see 
 
 Earnest appeals, judicial mockery, 
 
 And gratidations at successful ill, 
 
 While lights more dim the noisy conclave fill. 
 
40 THE TALL OF S. PETEE. 
 
 " I looked also upon My right hand, and saw there was no 
 man that would know Me." 
 
 Now in that corner of the vaulted dome 
 One soul of evil all the hearts doth stir ; 
 They jeer and beat the holy Prisoner, 
 
 With mockeries and jests around Him come, 
 
 Mantling in scorn that Face which doth illume 
 The Heaven of Heavens. Now one pollutes His 
 
 ear, 
 Another with injurious blows draws near. 
 
 But there is that which to His heart comes home 
 With sorer bitterness than jests so rude 
 And impious blows of that fierce multitude : 
 Amid the vassal courts and hall below 
 The dearly loved of His soul e'en now, 
 His own most dearly loved, hath forgot 
 His Master's very Name — he knows Him not. 
 
 3. 
 
 " How is the gold become dim 1 how is the most fine gold 
 changed I" 
 
 How terrible the night that broods around, 
 
 That we should e'er forget our Present God ! 
 
 They w r ho with Him the ways of sorrow trod, 
 Have been with Him in Tabor, and abound 
 With signs of love, with countless favours crown' d, 
 
 With whom He hath ta'en up His own abode, 
 
 Who companied wdth Him along the road, 
 And with Him were in season more profound ; 
 
 They who had all things for His sake resign' d — 
 Home, friends, and calling — for a martyr's wreath, 
 And boast of faithfulness to chains and death, 
 
 In high resolves and protestations blind, — 
 When they forget to pray, one little breath 
 
 Blows all away, like leaves before the wind. 
 
THE TALL OF S. PETER. 41 
 
 " The precious sons of Zion, compared to fine gold, how are 
 they esteemed as earthen pitchers." 
 
 Like some frail reed, which in the pale moonlight 
 Bows down, then broken hangs upon the ground; 
 Like some ice-scene with golden sunbeams 
 crown' d, 
 
 Which vanishes before mid-day grows bright ; 
 
 Or like the sea, so beautiful to sight, 
 
 Basking in sunlight, till a cloud profound 
 Doth all the glittering scene with gloom sur- 
 round ; 
 
 Or when the autumnal frost of one brief night 
 Strips some fair tree, and leaves it bleak and 
 bare, 
 
 Bobb'd of a whole year's pride and leafy state ; 
 Or when upon a full-orb' d summer noon 
 Comes in eclipse the intervening moon ; — 
 So our best feelings cherish' d long and fair 
 
 One hour of darkness may lay desolate. 
 
 5. 
 
 " Then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan V % 
 
 And who shall stand the trial when the rock 
 Is shaken ? We whose strongest purposes 
 Are but as webs to catch the summer flies, 
 Which the bat's wing beats down, the owlets mock, 
 Or light as gossamers that hold the flock 
 Of stationary sunbeams, which the breeze 
 Plays with, — yes, we that float our flags at ease 
 And softness, what shall we do in the shock, 
 When principalities have on us broke 
 
 In their own hour of darkness — what shall we ? 
 Lord, let us not Thy Hand in that dark day 
 Forego, nor midnight Voice which calls to pray ; — 
 So when the storm shivers the forest oak, 
 
 May we our poor frail branches hang on Thee. 
 
42 THE FALL OF S. PETEE. 
 
 6. 
 
 u Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see 
 him ? saith the Lord." 
 
 Oft since that hour until the end e'en now, 
 While in the raised-apart and sacred shrine 
 The dread memorials of His Love Divine 
 
 Are offered up for us, there is below 
 
 One who hath ventured to His courts to go, 
 In whom His Omnipresent Eye descries, 
 A heart that secretly his Loed denies, 
 
 In self- deceiving thoughts and fears that bow 
 Before the multitude; who hears God's law, 
 While influences of men with present awe 
 
 O'erwhelm him ; and content to be as they, 
 Forgets the lesson which the Garden taught, 
 And higher stern resolves before him brought, 
 
 Nor schools his heart aright to watch and pray. 
 
&. \Mtv looking to Christ. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who didst turn and look 
 upon Peter, who remembered the word that Thou 
 hadst spoken, and went out and wept bitterly ; 
 grant that i may never cease to weep for my sins, 
 and to have fellowship with thee in thy suffer- 
 INGS, O Lord my God. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 €J)e priest turn* again to tlje altar. 
 
Till. 
 THE PENITENT EESTOEED. 
 
 1. 
 
 " In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the Angel of 
 His Presence saved them." 
 
 In holy silence most adorable 
 
 Stands the meek Lamb of God, and not a sound 
 Escapes His lips in sacred sorrow bound, 
 
 " With grief acquainted." What though words 
 may tell 
 
 Of pains and griefs which at death's portal dwell, 
 Yet who shall speak the secret flowing wound 
 When love itself in hour of need is found 
 
 Unfaithful ? — in the heart unspeakable 
 
 Dwells the unstaunched wound and bleeds within, 
 Deep in the soul that lean'd on its own love. 
 E'en so Thy Spirit did Thy Prophets move 
 
 Whene'er Thy chosen children in their sin 
 Deny Thee ; — ever grieving through all times 
 "The Man of Sorrows" o'er His children's 
 
 crimes. 
 
 • 
 
 * Jer. xiii. 17 ; xxxi. 18, 20. 
 
46 THE PENITENT EESTOEED. 
 
 2. 
 
 " O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt ?" 
 
 Lord, are we in that tender heart so near 
 
 And dear to Thee ? Thon knowest long before 
 Onr very thoughts ; our words are counted o'er 
 Before they rise, and on our tongues made clear 
 Unto ourselves and others they appear. 
 For our affections are the very store 
 That Thou would' st treasure up ; and evermore 
 Close to our countenance Thine Eye and Ear 
 Is listening for our words, to us unknown. 
 Oh, let me ne'er amid the wicked stand, 
 Eorgetting vows I made with Thee alone ; 
 But if surrounded by the impious band, 
 Eill'd with the thoughts of Thy Gethsemane, 
 Let me forget myself — remember Thee ! 
 
 " He opened the rock of stone, and the waters flowed out, 
 so that rivers ran in the dry places.' ' 
 
 Then often from that silence, long conceal' d, 
 In awe beyond all utterance most keen, 
 Thine Eye turns on us ; Satan then is seen 
 
 Departing ; all his crafts at once reveal' d, 
 
 When he hath gain'd his end, and sin hath seal'd 
 Our disobedience : then breaks forth between 
 The love of our dear Lord, which long hath been 
 
 Watching, and yet so oft in vain appeal' d 
 To earnest vow and promise vainly spent. 
 Then by His rod the smitten rock is rent, 
 And suddenly the waters pour apace 
 Erom the deep hidden fountains of His Grace, 
 To freshen the dry wilderness within, 
 Parch' d by the fiery blast that pass'd in sin. 
 
the pe>~ite:st eestoked. 47 
 
 4. 
 
 " My sin is ever before me." 
 
 The Rock is smitten, and the water flows, 
 
 And ne'er shall cease to flow ; but whensoe'er 
 That warning cock shall reach his wakeful ear, 
 That Eve again shall meet him 'mid Its woes, 
 And all that scene anew around him close, — 
 The midnight hall — the maiden drawing near — 
 The dread suspense — the agonizing fear — 
 The scoffer's noise and scorn — and the repose 
 Of that recalling Eye upon him cast 
 "With tender reminiscence of the past, — 
 With meek reproving, yet forgiving glance, 
 Upon him turn'd with speechless utterance, — 
 Then all afresh, with unabated force, 
 Open'd the silent flood-gates of remorse. 
 
 11 Turn us again, O God ; show the light of Thy countenance, 
 and we shall be whole." 
 
 Wliene'er he heard the cock crow Peter wept ; 
 Again to his forgotten Loed he turn'd, 
 And all anew his old affections burn'd, 
 
 And penitential sorrows o'er him crept 
 
 With thrilling visions, which, whene'er he slept, 
 Woke him again to prayer. Oh, lesson learn' d 
 Not dearly, at whatever cost discern' d ! 
 
 Oh, should temptation from us intercept 
 Thy loving Countenance, yet whensoe'er 
 
 We turn again, and to Thine Altar flee 
 
 From our own sins and from the world, oh, there 
 Lift on our hearts Thy gracious look Divine, 
 
 That we, returning to ourselves and Thee, 
 
 May wet with tears the pavement of Thy shrine. 
 
48 THE PENITENT EESTOEED. 
 
 6. 
 
 11 When my heart is in heaviness I will think upon God." 
 
 Flow forth, flow forth, ye drops of holy brine, 
 And wash away the taints which else remain 
 Indelible in power or guilty pain. 
 That Eye which doth in pity now incline 
 Will blend Its tears, and blending give to Thine 
 A power to wash away the deepest stain, 
 And turn the bitter brine to healthful rain. 
 Then from dry ground shall spring the Eoot Di- 
 vine ; # 
 But when our eyes meet Thine, oh, then no less 
 Be with us, Loed, sustain us and control, 
 Lest in that wakening of the sinful soul, 
 In sense of our bereavement, to the ground 
 "We sink again in sorrow, and be drown' d 
 E'en in the flood of our own bitterness. 
 
 * Isaiah liii. 2. 
 
Cijrtet before dilate. 
 
 THE PRATER. 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who wert led to Pilate, and 
 
 WILLING TO BE ACCUSED BY FALSE WITNESSES ; ENABLE 
 
 ME, I pray Thee, to escape the snares of the WICKED, 
 
 AND TO CONFESS MY FAITH IN THEE BY WORKS AGREEABLE 
 TO THE SAME. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 draper for tlje Z\in$. 
 
IX. 
 PILATE'S JUDGMENT-HALL. 
 
 " By Me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the 
 earth." 
 
 Lord, if the wicked are " a sword of Thine," 
 And princes do not "bear the sword in vain," 
 When, as Thy delegates, on earth they reign ; 
 And hearts of kings are in Thy Hand Divine, 
 Which Thou as streams of water dost incline, 
 To fertilize, to freshen and sustain, 
 Or to destroy : then by this patient chain 
 To which Thou didst in love Thyself resign, 
 
 When Thou with downcast eyes and back-bound 
 
 hand 
 Before the potentates of earth didst stand ; 
 Teach us beneath the oppressive powers of ill 
 Thy chastening rod to see, and so be still ; — 
 
 Loving that Church which bears Thy sign of 
 
 scorn, 
 Nor conquers but when she that Cross hath 
 borne. 
 
 e2 
 
52 pilate's judgmext-hall. 
 
 2. 
 
 "When thou walkest through the fire, then shalt not be 
 burned ; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee." 
 
 When for the sins of Thine own Israel 
 Nebuchadnezzar sits upon the throne, 
 And holds her in the chains of Babylon, 
 He with His children in the fires shall dwell 
 Wno now, to human eyes made visible, 
 
 Stands before Pilate ; — to them shall be known, 
 "Walk with them, and shall claim them for His 
 own. 
 As here on earth, when conflagrations swell, 
 Heaven's winds rush down, and are around them 
 brought, 
 So in the kingdom of Thy grace below, 
 "When fires of persecution round us grow, 
 Thy Spirit, like a moist and freshening wind, 
 Comes to be with us in the viewless mind, 
 With visitations of refreshing thought. 
 
 " It was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by 
 night to these." 
 
 The eagle doth a twofold emblem prove, 
 The advancing emblem of imperial state, — 
 The abomination which makes desolate, — 
 
 Or soaring gentle as the household dove, 
 
 The very image of celestial love, 
 The E oval sign of the regenerate. 
 
 E'en so the kingly Unction from above 
 Sometimes the inner reins doth penetrate 
 
 With the Anointing of the King of kings, 
 Setting the standard of the Cross therein, 
 
 As kingly Hand when of Saul pursued ; 
 
 Sometimes for chastening of Thy people's sin, 
 
 God's minister of wrath to sight it brings, 
 
 As Saul's ambitious hate and fortitude. 
 
pilate's judgment-hall. 53 
 
 " If My kingdom were of this world, then would My ser- 
 vants fight." 
 
 But whensoe'er the kings that bear Thy trust, 
 
 Thy Cross more dear than their own sceptre hold ; 
 
 And, 'neath the shining purple and the gold, 
 Sackcloth put on, and penitential dust : 
 The world's mysterious hate against the just 
 
 Shrinks from that light ; allegiance first grows 
 cold, 
 
 And then, in ways most strange and manifold, 
 The many-handed monster in his lust 
 
 His multitudinous sides again shall shake, 
 And cast them to the ground, and there in hate 
 
 Their crown and sceptre 'neath his feet shall 
 break ; 
 
 And therefore Thy true kingdom here below 
 From Thine own Cross shall ne'er be separate, 
 
 But find its strength in that dread sign of woe. 
 
 " I am the good Shepherd, and know My sheep, and am 
 known of Mine. ,, 
 
 What though His endless reign spreads forth below, 
 
 'Tis " as it were in secret " and unknown, 
 
 E'en as Himself when friendless and alone, 
 Before the heathen Pilate thus made low. 
 
 His kingdom is the Truth, and they who know 
 The Truth shall find their way unto His throne, 
 Entering that City's gates. And He shall own 
 
 Their due allegiance. Where He reigns e'en now 
 On this bad earth His kingdom is true peace, 
 
 Order, and harmony, and blessed love, 
 
 Eor ever manifold yet ever one, 
 
 One King, one Kingdom ; clothed with the sun, 
 His kingdom with His knowledge doth increase, 
 
 Till both are in fruition lost above. 
 
54 pilate's judgment-hall. 
 
 6. 
 
 " The throne of God, and of the Lamb." 
 
 Thy kingdom is release from death and sin, 
 
 From the heartburnings and the fear and strife ; 
 For the Lamb's Blood, which speaks of endless 
 life, 
 
 Is on the door by which we enter in, 
 
 Beats in the heart when true life doth begin ; 
 Fills all the veins ; each grace which there is rife 
 Speaks of that Blood ; the Church is but the Wife 
 
 Of the meek Lamb — the Bride His Blood doth win. 
 'Tis the slain Lamb that sits upon the throne : 
 Therefore no place is in that kingdom known 
 
 For pride's disquiet, and ambition's pains ; 
 
 It is the Lamb Himself that all sustains ; 
 All there, in all things, at all seasons own 
 
 The love and meekness of the Lamb that reigns. 
 
Christ gent from J3tlate to fficrotJ. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who, when Thou wast stand- 
 ing before Herod, didst answer nothing to the 
 false charges which they brought against thee : 
 grant me such strength, that i may courageously 
 endure the reproaches of them that slander me, 
 nor ever reveal thy holy things to the unworthy. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 Ct)e gtiesJt on tlje (Epistle tilt of tfje altar. 
 
X. 
 
 CHRIST BEF0EE HEEOD. 
 
 1. 
 
 " They Lave cast their heads together with one consent ; 
 and are confederate against thee ; the tabernacles of the Edom- 
 ites." 
 
 Sets^t from that heathen judgment-hall of woe, 
 They now in mockery rnde their Victim bring 
 Before the subtle Galilean king ; 
 
 While through the streets they hurry to and fro, 
 
 Xow throng behind, and now before Him go, 
 In hate successful loud and triumphing ; 
 As some poor death-bound prince, or captive 
 thing, 
 
 Forced through Rome's streets before his last death 
 blow ; 
 Or sacrificial beast, amid the throng 
 To some old heathen altar urged along ; 
 
 Or as fierce dogs hunt down the gentle hare, 
 
 From place to place, loud yelling for its blood ; — 
 The Pharisees their Victim have pursued ; 
 
 Lo, in the kingly palace, they are there. 
 
58 CUEIST BEEOEE HEEOD. 
 
 " If the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that 
 darkness I" 
 
 Steep' d in the murder' d Baptist's holy blood 
 
 Sits the incestuous and adulterous chief, 
 
 Well pleased to view the Savioue in His grief, 
 Hoping to see some miracle of good. 
 Oh, strange infatuation which withstood 
 
 The strivings of the Spirit ! Oh, how brief 
 
 The day of our salvation and relief, 
 Ere tenfold night doth on the senses brood, 
 
 Close up the eye and ear, and case the heart 
 In thick-ribbed iron ! Pharaoh-like, to see 
 
 Signs to the Almighty Presence which belong, 
 As of some sportive juggler at his art. 
 
 And yet himself unscathed to sit among 
 The lightnings of Incarnate Deity ! 
 
 3. 
 
 " But He answered him nothing.'' 
 
 Silence most eloquent, beneath the sound 
 
 Of earthly things, with current deep and strong, 
 Doth like a hidden ocean move along ; 
 
 What silent retributions do abound ! 
 
 What silent intercessions all around ! 
 
 Time silent steals, in memory keeps the wrong, 
 And then puts forth his hand amid the throng. 
 
 Our God disown' d, our King with shame is crown' d, 
 And in that robe is made the scorn of men : 
 
 The sun shall see a Herod in his might 
 
 Spangled in that same silver robe of light,* 
 And men aloud declare him G-od, and then 
 
 The Angel's hand shall smite his royal form, 
 
 Mark'd as the prey of the devouring worm. 
 
 * Acts xii. 21 : " Arrayed in royal apparel." "A robe 
 made all of silver tissue. As the sun was then rising, the rays 
 made it shine/' — Josephus. 
 
CITRIST BEFORE HEROD. 59 
 
 4. 
 
 "Iara the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the valleys. As 
 the lily among thorns, so is my love." 
 
 Behold the lilies of the vernal field ; 
 
 For Solomon was ne'er arrayed so bright, 
 
 In all his tissued robe of silver light, 
 As one of these, to thoughtful eyes reveal' d. 
 The microscope will show their crystal shield, 
 
 All studded with fair pearls and chrysolite, 
 
 And purple veins that track the virgin white, — 
 A beauteous world from our gross eyes conceal' d. 
 
 That glittering robe of kingly Solomon 
 
 By this false Idumean is put on : 
 But fairer than the glory of the flower 
 
 Was Christ's white robe of spotless innocence, 
 Worn in His bleeding Passion's darkest hour, 
 
 Too brilliant for the eye of mortal sense. 
 
 5. 
 
 "They have washed their robes, and made them white in 
 the Blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne 
 of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple." 
 
 Thence the white robes of all-prevailing prayer, 
 
 Through all her courts shall to His Church de- 
 scend, 
 
 Multiplied at her shrines unto the end. — 
 Numberless as the stars on the dark air 
 Come forth, and the departed sun-light share. 
 
 That robe a silent language doth attend, 
 It speechless intercession seems to wear, 
 
 As representing Him Who stood our Friend 
 Before the king of terrors. At that day, 
 In plenitude of His Almighty sway, 
 Whate'er things Him approach' d, hate, jest, or 
 
 chance, 
 Put on themselves divine significance ; 
 E'en as the setting sun, of clouds brought nigh, 
 Makes to himself a glorious pageantry. 
 
60 CHKIST BEFOBE HEEOD. 
 
 6. 
 
 " God forbid that I should sin against the Lord, in ceasing 
 to pray for you." 
 
 By mockery cloth' d in that white garb of scorn 
 Stood our Great Sacrifice for us to plead, 
 And to our GrOD in silence intercede, 
 
 And solitude ; then what if thus forlorn 
 
 In all His courts that snowy vest is worn,* 
 Pleading, alas, for them who little heed, 
 'Mid enemies who know not their great need, 
 
 As Cheist Himself upon that holy morn. 
 That lifting up of hands may still avail, 
 
 As on the mount apart, when Israel fought, 
 Moses, sustained by Sacerdotal power, 
 
 Outstretch' d his arms in silence, and thence brought 
 A power to Israel in that destined hour, 
 
 With lifting up of hands to win or fail. 
 
 * " Since that accident to our Lord, the Church hath not 
 indecently chosen to clothe her priests with albs, or white gar- 
 ments : and it is a symbolical intimation and representment 
 of that part of the passion and affront which Herod passed upon 
 the holy Jesus : and this is so far from deserving a reproof, 
 that it were to be wished all the children of the Church would 
 imitate all those graces which Christ exercised when He wore 
 that garment, which she hath taken up in ceremony and thank- 
 ful memory." — Jer. Taylor, Life of Christ. 
 
Cfjrtet sent back to dilate. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Whom Herod sent again 
 unto Pilate, being on that same day made friends 
 together ; grant that i may be able to set at 
 nought the designs of wicked men ; and so to 
 improve and advance forward under every temp- 
 tation, as to be made like unto thee, my lord 
 and God. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 CfK £ovtf) or Gospel £tfce of tf)e 9Itar. 
 
XI. 
 
 PILATE AKD HEEOD EECOXCILED. 
 
 1. 
 
 " The fierceness of man shall turn to Thy praise." 
 
 Herod and Pilate are made friends to-day, 
 And Jew and Gentile are together met, 
 By unseen hands the Corner-stone is set, 
 
 Both walls to one are tending now their way ; 
 
 For evil spirits His behests obey, 
 
 And work His will, caught in their own strange 
 
 net, 
 While they confederate foes with malice whet 
 
 Against incarnate Goodness. Thus they lay 
 
 In Sion the chief Corner-stone, with blood 
 Cemented, and made firm and ratified 
 
 By voice of the infatuate multitude. 
 
 All are united now with one accord, 
 All in one headlong purpose are allied 
 
 Against the Lord of life, the living Word. 
 
64 PILATE AND HEROD RECONCILED. 
 
 2. 
 
 " Both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and 
 the people of Israel, were gathered together, for to do what- 
 soever Thy hand and Thy counsel determined before to be 
 done." 
 
 Gentile, and Jew, and Scribe, and Sadducee, 
 
 People, and priests, and kings are now made one, 
 By malice brought to wondrous union, 
 
 Mock counterfeit of holy charity ; 
 
 Such power hath truth divine, that things we see 
 Catch at its likeness, in its impress run, 
 Shadows on earth of the celestial sun : 
 
 As when in spreading tribes at enmity, 
 Ishmael, and Edomite, and Hagarene, 
 Midian, and Amalek, there soon was seen 
 
 The " sire of many nations :" swift they sprung 
 
 From that great prophecy which yet was young, 
 Like sands on the sea-shore, in forecast given 
 Of Christian nations like the stars of heaven. 
 
 3. 
 
 " Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast born me a man of 
 strife and a man of contention to the whole earth !" 
 
 Thus is the Gospel as a sword on earth, 
 Kindling division more inveterate 
 Than in ought else is known of human hate : 
 
 Pride, lust, wrath, envy, sadness, impious mirth, 
 
 Which in our hearts' dark ruins have their birth, 
 In ways most manifold and intricate 
 Combine against the Light, else separate. 
 
 Yet Truth the while in its own household hearth 
 
 Shines, amid foes its standard onward beareth, 
 And ne'er but by itself is overcome, 
 
 When trampled most, victorious most appeareth, 
 Outcast and hated through the world to roam, 
 Seeking in every heart to make its home ; 
 
 Whatever cannot love the heavenly Guest it feareth. 
 
PILATE AXD HEKOD RECONCILED. 65 
 
 4. 
 
 " Though they curse, yet bless thou." 
 
 To Pilate's judgment-hall again returned, 
 "With sorer woes oppress' d, and bearing still 
 At each remove a heavier weight of ill, 
 
 From place to place His love more brightly burn'd, 
 
 At each remove His patience was discern' d. 
 While evil winds turn'd not His steadfast will, 
 "Whose flame burnt upward, but its rising fill, 
 
 Till He the length, and breadth, and depth hath 
 learn' d 
 Of human bitterness. Of ills they pour 
 Full measure pressed down and running o'er 
 Into His bosom, which He doth restore 
 
 To them again steep' d in His precious Blood ; 
 
 While Satan's darts, by patient love withstood, 
 
 Are by Him made to work eternal good. 
 
 " O My people, what have I done unto thee ? and wherein 
 have I wearied thee ? testify against Me." 
 
 Thus driven from place to place, He makes appeal 
 From judgment unto judgment in all eyes, 
 In judgment stands before all enemies, 
 
 Crying aloud, each hidden thing reveal, 
 
 Bring forth your reasons nothing to conceal, 
 Let wicked men and spirits now arise, 
 One Woman-born your enmity defies, 
 
 Else on His innocence ye set your seal. 
 Te in like manner shall before Him stand, 
 
 Each, one by one, stand as a criminal, 
 
 And make appeal in the great judgment-hall 
 Of men and angels ; all things now at hand 
 Shall onward pass to the eternal strand, 
 
 Where sentence shall be given upon us all. 
 
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66 PILATE AKD HEROD RECONCILED. 
 
 6. 
 
 " If these things be in you and abound, they make you that 
 ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of 
 our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 Would that to Thee we might be likened now, 
 So we this persecution should obtain, 
 And turn obtain' d to our abiding gain ; — 
 
 From trial-scene to scene we thus might go, 
 
 Gaining in each advantage o'er the foe, 
 So unto us each heaven- descended pain 
 Might wash away some guilt-contracted stain, 
 
 And we our own abasement come to know ; 
 
 So more and more may learn how to forgive ; 
 And more forgiving, may be more forgiven ; 
 
 That more forgiven, we the more may love ; 
 
 And loving more, like That we love may prove ; 
 
 And liken' d more to Him, in Him may live, 
 And find in Him the rest which is of Heaven. 
 
CJ)rtet Stripped of W* €iotf)wg. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who didst endure to be 
 stripped of Thy garments as a criminal; grant me, 
 I beseech Thee, to shake off the heavy burden of 
 my sins ; that, putting on the breastplate of Thy 
 righteousness, I may ever find grace in Thy 
 sight. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 Cf)e (Elements (Elncofceretr. 
 
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XII. 
 CHRIST STRIPPED OF HIS GARMENTS. 
 
 1. 
 
 " As many were astonied at Thee ; His visage was so marred 
 more than any man, and His form more than the sons of 
 men." 
 
 O Thou, the Fount of all that's fair and good, 
 On Whose blest countenance, girt with bright 
 
 rays, 
 Adoring angels and archangels gaze, 
 And drink unspeakable beatitude ; — 
 Before Thy guilty creatures hast Thou stood 
 Thus covered with dishonour ; in rude ways 
 Reft of that robe which did divinely blaze 
 On Tabor's heaven-uplifted solitude, 
 
 Which with mysterious healing did abound, 
 When virtue went forth through their skirts 
 around 
 From That Thy sinless Body, which did wear 
 The sins of all the world ; now stripp'd and bare, 
 Naked, as erst chshonouring Thy Hand 
 Adam in paradise did guilty stand. 
 
70 CHEIST STRIPPED OF HIS GARMENTS. 
 
 " I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die." 
 
 Long hast Thou striven since our sad parents' fall 
 To veil our nakedness, and sinful shame 
 Indelibly imprinted on our frame, 
 
 By skins as by a robe funereal, 
 
 And offering up of slaughter' d animal, 
 
 And more than all by Thine Almighty Name, 
 As by a shield from self-reproaching blame 
 
 Against the Accuser : in man's judgment-hall 
 Thyself, Who art the GrOD of purity, 
 Art naked, stripp'd, and desolate — for me; 
 
 "With virginal pure Flesh all trembling there, 
 
 And modest Soul than heaven of heavens more fair, 
 Shrinking within in speechless agonies, 
 A gazing-stock and scorn to cruel eyes. 
 
 " If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked." 
 
 In this Thy nakedness as of the tomb, 
 
 By Thine unclothing we are clothed upon ; 
 
 E'en as Thy dying for us life hath won, 
 And as Thine exile is to us our home, 
 So Thine unclothing hath to us become 
 
 Our house from heaven. Unhoused, unclothed, 
 undone, 
 
 Thou hast our nakedness clothed with the sun 
 Of Thine Own brightness ; as the clouds which 
 
 roam 
 Onward, attendant on the sun's white throne, 
 
 Are in themselves all mist and gloom forlorn, , 
 Yet clothed in golden radiance not their own 
 Are made the moving canopies of Heaven, 
 
 Hanging in wreaths around the face of morn, 
 Or beauteous imagery which is at even. 
 
CHRIST STRIPPED OP HIS GARMENTS. 71 
 
 4. 
 
 " He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering 
 cast over all people :" — u that cover with a covering, butnot of 
 My Spirit." 
 
 So deeply in our spirits hidden lieth 
 
 The consciousness of this our nakedness, 
 
 Our guilty souls from Heaven's light shrink no less 
 
 Than do our bodies ; when the eye would press 
 
 Home to its covert, inwardly it sigheth 
 
 At thought of its own nakedness, and crietli 
 To Him alone that knoweth her distress ; 
 
 And when her conscious shame the Accuser trieth, 
 Can only in His sheltering Bosom hide. 
 
 The appliances which from the world we borrow 
 Are but the ministrations of our pride, 
 To find some hiding-place, and there abide : 
 
 But the great Judgment, with an endless sorrow, 
 
 Such coverings from the soul shall strip to-morrow. 
 
 5. 
 
 "Thy rebuke hath broken My heart: I am full of heavi- 
 ness : I looked for some to have pity en Me, but there was 
 no man." 
 
 Thou hadst no sin, but didst in pity take 
 The tenderness of those meek souls serene 
 That on all brotherly compassions lean, 
 
 And when those sympathies of friends forsake, 
 
 Soul-stricken feel, as if the heart would break : 
 Such love, when by the rude world it is seen, 
 Is deem'd all weakness, though its griefs have 
 been 
 
 Not for itself, but for its brethren's sake. 
 
 Through Psalms and Prophets thus, like the meek 
 Dove, 
 His Spirit dotli a mourner's heart express, 
 
 With images akin to human love. 
 
 And thus the Lord .descending from above, 
 Clothed Himself with all human tenderness, 
 That so His Shadow might our weakness bless. 
 
72 CHEIST STRIPPED OP HIS GARMENTS. 
 
 11 Who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that 
 shall die, and forgettest the Lord thy Maker ?" 
 
 All this for me, that by Thy mercy shriven 
 I might in sonl and body be made whole, 
 That I might open my sin-festering sonl 
 
 Before him nnto whom Thy power is given 
 
 To bind and loose, and bear the keys of Heaven, 
 Back to its sonrce the gather' d load to roll ; 
 The soul by running leprosies made foul 
 
 To reinstate at pardon-gate, thence driven ; 
 
 Though face-confusion waits on us before 
 One eye, and that in mercy : one pale star 
 
 Sits in the twilight at the evening door, 
 
 Whose blush precedes the darkness ; better far 
 
 Than in the Judgment to unnumber'd eyes, 
 
 And the whole court of the assembled skies. 
 
Cljvfet scourge*. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who wast willing to be bound 
 to a pillar, and shamefully scourged for our sakes ; 
 grant that i may ever bear with patience the 
 stripes of Thy Fatherly correction, nor ever by 
 my sins displease Thee. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 dje ©blatton in silence. 
 
XIII. 
 CHEIST SCOUEGED. 
 
 1. 
 
 " Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, 
 be ye very desolate, saith the Lord." 
 
 My Lord and God, I see Thee standing bare, 
 Eeft of Thy robes, and shuddering at the sight 
 Of executioners, that try their might 
 
 In mock essays, and rods and cords prepare. 
 
 And now the lictor band are entering there ; 
 The morning throws askant her cold grey light, 
 But more and more the while a tenfold night 
 
 Possession takes of that dread theatre ; 
 
 For Thou, who art the Sun of Eighteousness, 
 "With dr a west all Thy beams — in sore distress ; 
 
 As wanton soldiery are closing round, 
 
 And evil spirits have their senses drowned 
 
 In cruelty ; — while, to the pillar bound, 
 
 Thou wait'st the stroke in shivering nakedness. 
 
76 CHEIST SCOURGED. 
 
 2. 
 
 " By His stripes we are healed.' ' 
 
 Such is the offering of Thyself, that we 
 
 May willingly embrace the healing scourge, 
 While the rude world mocks at the thoughts 
 that urge 
 
 To chastening laws of self-severity. 
 
 But what is all this sorrow poured on Thee ? 
 Not that our flesh may from this gloom emerge 
 In pamper' d ease ; but when she strives to purge 
 
 In-dwelling sins by their due penalty, 
 
 Or takes the scourging of a Father's Hand, 
 
 She may remember that on Thee were laid 
 
 Her heavy burdens, and rejoice when made 
 
 Like unto Thee, "Who thus didst trembling 
 stand, — 
 
 May learn there is no health but in the rod 
 
 Which hath been borne by our own pitying GrOD. 
 
 3. 
 
 " There is no whole part in My body. I am feeble and sore 
 smitten." 
 
 The scene of blood comes thickening on that morn, 
 And now of the loud scourge I hear the sound 
 Redoubled, and I see the reddening wound, — 
 Wound upon wound, — His tender back is torn, 
 Mower of all human flesh — the Sinless born ; 
 The Lily of the Vales that loved the ground, 
 Shrinking from view profane, and spotless found ; 
 JSTow lifted like the rose upon the thorn, 
 
 Which hangs its head beneath the stormy shower; 
 And ere it sheds in death its dripping leaves, 
 One purple petal, as it earthward grieves, 
 
 Falls wet with dew from the o'erloaded flower : 
 So from Thy Body, mingling with Thy tears, 
 Drops Thy life's-blood, and on the stone appears. 
 
CHEIST SCOVEGED. 77 
 
 4. 
 
 " He bare our griefs, and carried our sorrows." 
 
 Thus the Almighty God is prostrate bent 
 
 Beneath the unpitying scourge and soldier throng, 
 Yielding those Hands to the fast binding thong, 
 
 "Which moulded the o'er-hanging firmament ; — 
 
 A fainting Victim with sore anguish spent. 
 Tims till the day of doom He comes among 
 His children's thoughtless ways of mirth or 
 wrong, 
 
 Bearing the burden of our punishment, — 
 Comes in some attitude of speechless throes 
 
 Upon our joys and sorrows to attend ; 
 
 Teaching us what alone His Spirit knows, 
 
 Our state, our origin, our being's end ; 
 
 While thus our true and eyerlasting Friend 
 Pleads with us in the silence of His woes. 
 
 5. 
 
 " By His knowledge shall My righteous Servant justify many.' 
 
 This from our penal stripes is the reprieye, 
 In this oblation they are sanctified ; 
 The Father reconciled henceforth shall hide 
 
 Within His tabernacle those that grieye : 
 
 And the almighty Comforter shall cleave 
 To those in suffering unto Him allied : 
 That they beneath this shadow may abide, 
 
 He scourgeth eyery son He doth receiye. 
 
 In this bad world with leprous taint o'ercast, 
 Which to its own corruption fades so fast, 
 
 Nothing in the All-seeing Eyes is good, 
 Saye as the mirror of the Eternal Sok, 
 Wlien therein is beheld what He hath won, 
 
 In images of His atoning Blood. 
 
78 CHKIST SCOTTEGED. 
 
 6. 
 
 "Blessed are they which have been sorrowful for all Thy 
 scourges ; for they shall rejoice for Thee, when they have seen 
 all Thy glory, and shall be glad for ever." 
 
 Thy sorrows were one cloud of black amaze, 
 
 Unmitigated gloom due to our sin ; 
 
 But unto us an angel face comes in, 
 And still with solitary sweetness stays, 
 
 Pleading to tender sympathies within 
 For Thee and for Thy sorrows, while we gaze, 
 
 Amid the gathering storm ; as fain to win 
 From recklessness of our too mirthful days 
 
 To love Thy sorrows, and to be with Thee, 
 
 Rather than in the world. Thus unto me 
 A star comes out beyond the stormy sky 
 
 That wrapt Thee round ; to us Thy Blood is 
 Wine, 
 
 Thy griefs our hope, Thy dying Life divine, 
 Refreshment in Thine anguish- drooping Eye. 
 
€f)e Crofon of CfjornS. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who in order to redeem me 
 Thy servant, wast willing to bear a crown of 
 thorns, and to endure most excruciating pains ; 
 pierce my flesh through and through with thy 
 fear, and grant that at length i may be crowned 
 with eternal glory together with thee in heaven. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 draper for tl)e Cljurri) fHtlttant. 
 
XIV. 
 THE GROWN OF THORNS. 
 
 1. 
 
 " He holdeth back the face of His throne, and spreadeth His 
 cloud upon it." 
 
 " What is His crime ? One to a kingdom born ! 
 Come, let us make a glorious diadem, 
 At every point shall be a living gem, 
 
 We with His own tiara will adorn, 
 
 And, circled with the radiance of the morn, 
 Show thee thy King, thou proud Jerusalem ! 
 His bleeding temples shall supply the stem 
 
 With rubies, and its rays the twisted thorn." 
 O hell-born skill of fierce imperial Eome, 
 Well might they deem thee from the very womb 
 
 Nurtured by savage beast amid the wild ; 
 
 With blood of all the nations now defiled ; 
 
 Henceforth thyself shalt thine own Caesars own. 
 And know and feel thyself the thorny crown, 
 o 
 
82 THE CBOWN OF THORKS. 
 
 2. 
 
 " O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in Me is thine 
 help. I will be thy King.' ' 
 
 But clothe Him first! — no more those garments 
 mean, — 
 
 Bring forth the purple for the kingly gown, 
 
 Such as may best become the imperial crown 
 And well be suited to the royal mien ; 
 The mirror wherein best His state is seen. 
 
 Zion, go forth thy promised King to own ! 
 
 Thou hast for Him prepared this regal throne ; 
 For thee He now is scourged ; for thee this scene, 
 
 This day of His espousals is for thee — 
 The Bride which He hath cherished now so long. 
 
 " Thy Maker is thy Husband," and to plead 
 More powerfully with thee He bears this wrong, — 
 
 The diadem that burns around His Head, 
 And robe that speaks, but mocks at, majesty. 
 
 " They know not what they do." 
 
 types of suffering and of sovereignty, — 
 
 The scarlet robe, a crown that makes to bleed ! 
 Ajid for a sceptre add the hollow reed 
 
 Of scorn and weakness ; — then they bend the knee, 
 
 And bow to Him in mock humility : 
 
 While one hath seized in sport the sceptred weed, 
 And with it strikes upon His crowned Head 
 
 (Oh, art refined in murderous cruelty !) 
 Driving the thorns more deeply; while e'en now — 
 O blindness terrible ! — around that Brow 
 
 Of unseen Godhead, on Whose smile or frown 
 Bliss everlasting hangs or endless woe, 
 
 The Blood bursts forth beneath the thorny crown, 
 And to His purple garment trickles down. 
 
THE CROWK OF THORNS. 83 
 
 " And thorns shall come up in her palaces." 
 
 The King of Martyrs thus, with His own band 
 Dyed in their blood around His Kingly seat, 
 And sufferers hallowed by the Paraclete, 
 
 Against the evil world hath ta'en His stand. 
 
 For man's own sake and benefit, the land 
 Sends forth its thorns and briers at his feet, 
 To furnish unto him his chastenings meet : 
 
 Therefore Eternal Wisdom so hath plann'd, 
 That when the Second Man shall ope the door 
 
 Of pardon, and mankind with power divine 
 Through sorrow and atonement shall restore, 
 
 He of man's woes shall expiation make, 
 
 Shall seize of sin the very scourge and sign, 
 
 And for the emblem of His kingdom take. 
 
 " We also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by 
 the power of God." 
 
 We bear not on our brows a ray divine 
 
 Caught from Thy glory, nor one glowing gem, 
 Nor the bright star of honoured Bethlehem, 
 
 But Thine own Cross impress'd — Thy Father's 
 sign. 
 
 In adoration when our knees incline 
 
 To Thee our King, of David's royal stem, 
 We see Thee not with throne and diadem ; 
 
 But on the Cross in anguish, there to pine. 
 So deep-polluted had become Thy Bride, 
 That Thou for love, to woo her to Thy side, 
 
 These "foul and filthy" garments didst put on, — 
 
 Thyself abasing that she might be won, 
 
 And in Thy Father's house with Thee abide, 
 
 Clothed with the robe of the Eternal Sox. 
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84 THE CEO WIS" OP THOENS. 
 
 6. 
 
 " Then she that is Mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall 
 cover her which said unto Me, Where is the Lord Thy God.'' 
 
 In the fair autuirm of the year's decline 
 When quiet stars come forth at evensong, 
 There doth a something to the skies belong 
 
 That speaks of roseate light which is divine ; 
 
 When the sun sinks into his western shrine. 
 Leaving on even-gate a blood-like stain, 
 As on the door the paschal victim slain. 
 
 Those tints of light that blend with purple wine, 
 Which the sun leaves behind, portend a morn 
 
 Of glorious promise, quiet skies serene ; # 
 And even now, in its decline new-born, 
 
 The nascent moon with all her stars is seen. 
 Thus as our Sun goes down in His own Blood, 
 Comes forth His Church with her bright mul- 
 titude. 
 
 * " Quod dbdtDominus, Facto vespere dicitis, Serenum erit ; 
 rubicundum est enim coelum; id est, sanguine passionis 
 Christi, in primo adventu indulgentia peccatorum datur. 
 Et mane, Hodie tempestas ; ru bet enim cum tristitid coelum ; 
 id est, quod secundo adventu igne praecedente venturus est. 
 Faciem ergo c cell ju die are nostis ; signa autem iemporum non 
 potestis ! Signa temporum dixit de adventu suo vel passione, 
 cui simile est roseum coelum vespere : et item de tribulatione 
 ante adventum suum futura, cui simile est mane roseum cum 
 tristitia coelum." — S. Aug. Qucest. Evang. I. 20, torn. iii. ed. 
 Benede 
 
" Brfjoltt tfje flflan." 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who didst endure the cruel 
 
 MOCKING OF SOLDIERS SPITTING ON THEE, AND SMITING 
 
 Thy Head with blows; grant that I may never lend 
 
 A WILLING EAR TO WHATSOEVER FLATTERETH ME. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 Ojc (£vf)ovtatton. 
 
XT. 
 "BEHOLD THE MAX!" 
 
 1. 
 
 "Wherefore art Thou red in Thine apparel, and Thy gar- 
 ments like him that treadeth in the wine -fat ?" 
 
 Who cometh with His garments dyed in blood 
 From Edom and from Bozrah ? Who is able 
 From death and hell, — which unassailable, 
 
 With walls defying heaven so long have stood, — 
 
 To save ? In His own wondrons solitnde 
 He comes, beyond all lore or ancient fable, 
 In His strength travelling unapproachable. 
 
 The flesh cannot discern the Only Good, 
 Apparell'd thus in His own conquest day. 
 Tea, 'mong themselves the very angels say, 
 
 " Lo, who is this that cometh ? Who is He 
 
 Whose Name is Secret p" They who shall at- 
 tend 
 His conquering march, shall answer to the end, 
 
 " To know that Name is immortality.' ' 
 
88 BEHOLD THE MA^ T ! 
 
 2. 
 
 11 He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. " 
 
 By Judas led to Annas ; then sent round 
 
 From Annas to blaspheming Caiaphas ; 
 
 From Caiaphas to Pilate ; then led bound 
 
 From Pilate to Herodian Antipas ; 
 And thence again to Pilate ; then disown' d 
 By Pharisees and people, scourged and crown' d : 
 Then rise the voices of the infuriate inass — 
 Give us not this Man, give us Barabbas ! 
 With one great voice of that fierce multitude 
 'Twas Satan who aloud call'd for His blood, — 
 As if the lion of the forest brayed # 
 After his prey, beholding Him betrayed ; 
 And then as beaten, mock'd, and under ban, 
 Pilate brings forth, and says, "Behold the Man !" 
 
 " Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto My sorrow." 
 
 " Behold the Man !" the Gentile says full well : 
 The garment, and the crowning, and the rod, — 
 "With suffering crown' d, humiliation shod, — 
 
 Man by His woes in meekness visible ; 
 
 The "Man of Sorrows !" "Who the wounds shall 
 tell 
 Of Hiin Who hath alone the wine-press trod ? 
 
 But loudly cries astonish' d Israel, 
 
 He made Himself to be the So^" of God : 
 
 Therefore both Man and God : the Man behold 
 In burning characters writ on His brow, 
 
 His very Manhood there by woe impress' d. 
 
 Behold your God ! e'en Zion hath confess' d 
 
 "What to the winds His words and deeds have told, 
 Behold your God, for healing or for woe ! 
 
 * Jer. xii. 7, 8. 
 
BEnOLD THE MiS ! 89 
 
 4. 
 
 " Nevertheless, Thy saints had a very great Light." 
 
 The fire of Godhead filled the thorny blaze, 
 Which in that mansion unconsuming burn'd, 
 Like the moon in a cloud, when Moses turn'd, 
 
 With awe adoring on the sight to gaze, — 
 
 Unharming incommunicable rays. 
 
 Thus Godhead in the Manhood was discern' d, 
 Which made the flesh Its home ; and thence hath 
 learn' d 
 
 The thorny bed of anguish and amaze. 
 
 And such the token, when with might divine 
 The Everlasting would His people call 
 Through the Eed Sea, from the Egyptian thrall, 
 
 With them within the wilderness to plead ; 
 Again enshrined in fire-illumined sign, 
 
 Onward to unseen Canaan did He lead. 
 
 5. 
 
 " We all, with open face beholding, as in a glass, the glory 
 of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to 
 glory.' ' 
 
 The eye swift glances, yet in passing by 
 Takes to itself whate'er it may behold, 
 Whether the face and form of human mould, 
 Or boundless spreading sea, or summer sky, 
 With all the stretch of their immensity. 
 
 And they who look beneath the eyelid's fold, 
 See the enamelTd mirror there enroll' d, 
 Lurking unknown beneath the unconscious eye. 
 And thus upon this picture would I gaze, 
 That while my solemn thought the scene portrays, 
 The soul within her may the impress keep, 
 In prayer and meditation lodging deep ; 
 
 That when the Eye of God may look thereon, 
 He may discern the Image of His Son. 
 
90 BEHOLD THE MA2f! 
 
 6. 
 
 44 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are 
 not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed 
 in us." 
 
 Hues fair as those which evening skies illume 
 Lie hidden in the seed, till, fed with dew 
 And foster' d by sunbeams, they come to view. 
 
 Lock'd once in treasury of that dark tomb, 
 
 Wherein they buried lay as in the womb ; 
 Now in fresh being, beautiful and new, 
 They hang above the spot from whence they grew. 
 
 Thus martyr-souls, from the o'erwhelming gloom 
 Which wrapt awhile their awful going hence, 
 In pity beyond human utterance, 
 
 May now in tearful beauty hang their head, 
 'Mid graces which are heavenly, yet of earth. 
 
 Eor from the grave where sorrow made her bed 
 Are all the virtues of our second birth. 
 
Cijitet Conttemnetf to tty Cvote. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Whom Pilate when he had 
 
 SCOURGED, DELIVERED UP TO BE CRUCIFIED, AS THOU 
 DIDST THUS WILLINGLY OFFER UP THYSELF FOR OUR SINS; 
 GRANT THAT WE MAY IN LIKE MANNER HUMBLY RECEIVE 
 THE STRIPES OF THINE ANGER, WHICH FOR OUR SIN9 WE 
 DESERVE. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 CIjc General Confession. 
 
XVI. 
 CHEIST CONDEMNED. 
 
 " The Anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits, of 
 Whom we said, Under His shadow we shall live." 
 
 When kings are by their subjects doom'd to die, 
 All Christian hearts strange horror doth appal, 
 And boding expectations on them fall 
 
 Of some unwonted and dire tragedy, — 
 
 Embodied evil seems itself so nigh. 
 
 And when the martyrs in man's judgment-hall 
 Under decree of death are given in thrall, 
 
 Our souls are touched by a strange sympathy, 
 Beyond expression of the outer sense ; 
 Though these be heirs of sin and death, yet 
 thence 
 
 In these emotions of man's heart is shown 
 
 Something more deep than to himself is known, 
 
 Which witness bears to God's Anointed One, — 
 A Kino- condemn' d in perfect innocence. 
 
94 CHRIST CONDEMNED. 
 
 " Look how wide also the east is from the west, so far hath 
 He set our sins from us." 
 
 From sentence pass'd on Adam's sinful brood, 
 To that last Judgment whither all things tend, — 
 Midway between man's origin and end, 
 
 This condemnation of our God hath stood ; 
 
 Nay, rather doth, in mourning attitude, 
 
 Prom end to end its outstretch' d shade extend. 
 And whosoe'er would rightly comprehend 
 
 This mortal being, capable of good, 
 
 In that dear shadow sees mankind, and 'neath 
 The coming on of what is after death, — 
 
 Those vast realities of which to hear, 
 
 Man's soul unto its centre shakes with fear, — 
 Thus daily shall himself regard, and prove 
 The depth of that great truth — that God is Love. 
 
 3. 
 
 " The love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." 
 
 In all things that portend this world's decease, 
 As the quick fall of all that is therein, 
 And death's dark rangers, whose broad net doth 
 win 
 
 By subtle sure instalments, — as Disease, 
 
 W inter, Decay, and Sorrow, — in all these 
 We read Thy condemnation, and our sin, — 
 Our sin which went so fast when once let in 
 
 That it could never rest in its increase, 
 
 Until this height of heights it had attain' d 
 
 "Which could no further go, but reach' d the skies. 
 Then in the strife Thy Love the conquest gain'd, 
 
 Which, like a mantle, from the All-seeing Eyes 
 Strove our exceeding sinfulness to hide, 
 And by humility to slay our pride. 
 
CHEIST CONDEMNED. 96 
 
 4. 
 
 " If one died for all, then were all dead." 
 
 Each day he lives is man condemn' d to die, 
 By One Who sits within the Judgment-hall 
 Rais'd in the heart of every criminal, 
 
 Whose righteous sentence no one can put by : 
 
 And then the stern decree to ratify, 
 
 Sleep still returns in night's o'ershadowing pall, 
 And sets death's stamp and image on us all. 
 
 To this Thy condemnation would I fly, 
 
 That self-condemn' d, while o'er myself I grieve, 
 I may in this, Thy dying, find reprieve : 
 
 But as Thou in Thy love, in this our stead, 
 
 As one with guilt oppress' d dost hang Thy Head, 
 I would put on my own mortality 
 By dying to myself, and live to Thee. 
 
 5. 
 
 " Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in ray infirmities, 
 that the power of Christ may rest upon me." 
 
 If this the mirror be of things on earth, — 
 
 All men with one consent against Thee stirr'd, 
 And e'en Barabbas unto Thee preferr'd, — 
 
 Then let me not in seriousness or mirth 
 
 Grieve to be set aside as nothing worth, 
 Another listen'd to, admired, and heard. 
 Such are occasions upon me conferr'd, 
 
 Whereby I may attest my better birth : 
 This is the daily dying I must love ; 
 In Thee my lineage thus, and portion prove : 
 
 While I in my own breast my sentence bear, 
 
 Self- judging, self-condemn' d. Then why should I 
 Chafe at my prison-house, if thus to die 
 
 Is in Thy righteousness to have a share ? 
 
96 CHBI8T CONDEMNED. 
 
 6. 
 
 " For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." 
 
 But Self must first be kill'd by penitence, 
 And buried in the grave of healthful sorrow : 
 The suns that harbinger a golden morrow 
 Blend with the hues of blood, and goings hence 
 In darkness, and soft tears which clouds dispense. 
 "lis only thus our sinful selves undoing 
 That aught in us is bred which finds renewing, 
 And may partake in Cheist's Own innocence. 
 The seed must disappear in wintry bed 
 Ere it in the full harvest lifts its head, 
 "When He "Who bears the sickle shall descend, 
 Sitting on a white cloud. O wondrous end ! 
 When Pharisee and Pilate, we and they 
 Before their Criminal stand on that day ! 
 
dilate toastytng fy& Hatttt*. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who, although judged to be 
 
 INNOCENT BY PlLATE THE GOVERNOR, YET DIDST WIL- 
 LINGLY HEAR THE MULTITUDE CRYING OUT AGAINST 1HEE | 
 GRANT UNTO ME, THY SUPPLIANT, TO HAVE MY CONVERSA- 
 TION IN SO GREAT INNOCENCY OF LIFE, THAT THE MOUTH > 
 OF THOSE WHO SPEAK EVIL AGAINST ME MAY BE STOPPED. 
 
 AMEN 
 
 €l)t Absolution. 
 
XYIL 
 PILATE WASHING HIS HANDS. 
 
 1. 
 
 " When Pilate, therefore, heard that saying, he was the more 
 afraid." 
 
 But e'en the Governor, arrayed in might, 
 Is moved within by an unwonted fear, 
 Trembling before his lowly Prisoner ; 
 
 A soldier used to every murderous sight, 
 
 The very heathen, in his own despite, 
 
 Peels judgment greater than his own is near, — 
 The judge doth like the guilty one appear ; 
 
 The Roman quails before an Israelite : 
 I deem that fable strong in mystery, 
 That lions of the forest will pass by, 
 Cowering at sight of virgin purity ; 
 
 And thus the world, e'en in her fiercest mood, 
 
 By envy onward urged to deeds of blood, 
 
 Still trembles while it persecutes the good. 
 ii 2 
 
100 PILATE WASHING HIS HA^DS. 
 
 2. 
 
 " Though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much 
 soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before Me, saith the Lord 
 God." 
 
 Many would wash their hands from Thy dear Blood 
 
 With Pilate, unabsolved by self within ; 
 
 The accuser sits behind them, and therein 
 Mocks them in doing ill with thoughts of good, 
 Leaving the hollow front of fortitude 
 
 To cover craven spirits he would win. 
 And what avails the loud-tongue d multitude 
 
 Against that still small Voice which speaks of 
 sin? 
 The earthquake and the thunder are soon gone, 
 And that dread whisper then will plead alone : 
 
 Nor can the breath of crowds, more guilty still, 
 E'er chase away, like a fresh-blowing wind, 
 The noxious vapours it hath left behind, 
 
 Or rectify the sin-perverted will. 
 
 3. 
 
 " Thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.'' 
 
 Thou, Loed, must bring Thyself the absolving 
 stream ; 
 
 Thyself alone canst wash away the stain ; 
 
 The streams of Paradise would flow in vain — 
 In vain a sea of tears on the sad theme ; 
 In vain would costly sacrifice redeem 
 
 One guilty spot ; — yea, this release to gain, 
 
 Hath all creation groaned so long in pain, 
 Striving, as if in some guilt-haunted dream, 
 To cleanse the stain ; the ingrain' d spot remains : 
 
 For this hath Superstition raised her shrines, 
 
 And 'mid her countless victims inly pines. 
 One drop of Thy dear Blood is more than all ; 
 
 Thy word of power, that bursts death's prison- 
 chains, 
 Alone can cleanse the will, lost power recall. 
 
PILATE WASHING HIS HANDS. 101 
 
 1. 
 " While I held my tongue, my bones consumed away." 
 
 First the all-trembling consciousness of ill 
 
 Deems earth and heaven have eyes, and the sick 
 mind 
 
 "Would lain herself unbosom to the wind, 
 But shame-struck back recoils ; then soon the will, 
 
 With Satan's cords yet more and more entwined, 
 Adds to the load, and leaves her labouring still ; 
 
 Till to the headlong stream at length resigned, 
 She hastes of crime the measure to fulfil, 
 
 In recklessness of conscience ill at ease. 
 But blessed they to whom 'tis timely given 
 
 At God's own mercy-seat to seek release, 
 
 And find a refuge in the absolving keys, 
 Which ope heaven's door, pour in celestial air, 
 And lead anew to penitential care. 
 
 5. 
 
 " Their soul should be as a watered garden ; and they shall 
 not sorrow any more at all." 
 
 Thus have I known, when on a sultry noon, 
 Beneath the vapour-loaded atmosphere, 
 All creatures hung their head, like guilty fear ; 
 
 Xature breathed thick and faint, and out of tune ; 
 
 Big drops descended one by one, and soon, 
 As with a momentary quick surprise, 
 
 Around, far brighter than the autumnal moon, 
 The vivid lightnings bathed the o'erhanging 
 skies, 
 
 The clouds unlock' d the fountains of their tears, 
 
 The heavens expanded ; then released from fears, 
 Earth looks up for renewal of their love ; 
 
 The trees with all their little leaves rejoice ; 
 
 The mountains and the valleys find a voice ; 
 One multitudinous song fills all the grove. 
 
102 PILATE WASHING HIS HAKDS. 
 
 11 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's, he shall return to 
 the days of his youth.' ' 
 
 Oh, peaceful calm of guilt and doom repealed, 
 
 As when before the priest the leper stood 
 
 With "ulcerous contagions all subdued, 
 And to the faithful eye in hope revealed : 
 Then the meek dove pronounced the leper healed, 
 
 Slain o'er the running stream, — the stream of 
 blood 
 
 Went down to Jordan's blest Baptismal flood: 
 He from his sickness cleansed, and freedom sealed, 
 
 Walked in the Holy City once again. 
 
 Thus when the golden keys retrieve the stain, 
 What if the mingled stream of blood and tears 
 
 Flows to the Baptism of our earlier years ; 
 And the regenerate soul, by sin defiled, 
 Oome from the stream again a healthful child. 
 
Christ beating %ti$ £xote. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who didst Thyself bear Thine 
 own Cross upon Thy shoulders; grant that I may 
 
 DAILY TAKE UP MY CROSS, AND FOLLOW THEE, MY LORD 
 
 AND my God. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 ifnbttatton. 
 
XYII1. 
 CHEIST BEAEIXG THE CEOSS. 
 
 1. 
 
 " Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me." 
 
 The way of sorrows and this burden sore 
 Are of Thy life the sad epitome, 
 "Wherein a weight of sorrows hung on Thee, 
 With Thine eyes on us fixed for evermore, 
 That we may rest our hearts on Thee before, 
 And gazing on Thee in Thy way of grief, 
 May from our very sorrows find relief, 
 Till hardship be to us hardship no more ; 
 
 That Thou, by Thine abasement and deep loss, 
 May'st clothe us with Thy Godhead by Thy 
 Cross. 
 So may our heart of hearts of Thee partake, 
 Till sorrow becomes welcome for Thy sake, 
 And e'en our punishment becomes our rest, 
 Exalted more, the more we are oppress' d. 
 
106 CHEIST BEAEI^a THE CEOSS. 
 
 " He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them 
 in His bosom. " 
 
 Thy sanctifying Shadow rests on these, 
 
 Therefore below do shame and sorrow prove 
 
 Within illumined by Almighty love, 
 And minister to gentle influences, 
 Which hide themselves in shade from human eyes. 
 
 Sweet scents and songs haunt lowly field and 
 grove, 
 
 From birds on streamlet banks, and woodland 
 dove ; 
 While mountain heights, bare in the summer skies, 
 
 Shake from their haughty necks the genial rain, 
 
 Of kites and birds of prey the wild domain. 
 'Tis like frail man to love to walk on high, 
 
 But to be lowly is to be as God ; 
 
 It is to drink the wine-press He hath trod, 
 Eeplete with strength and immortality. 
 
 3. 
 
 11 As gold in the furnace hath He tried them, and received 
 them as a burnt-offering." 
 
 Oh, wondrous warning to our pride and mirth, 
 
 Our God and King in infamy and pain ! 
 
 And he that runs may read this lesson plain, 
 That They Who know of things the eternal worth 
 Mark this as man's best portion here on earth, — 
 
 The wisdom of our God, though man's disdain, — 
 
 That thus to suffer with Him is to reign ; 
 His kingdom hath in man no other birth. 
 
 Our GrOD in sorrows ; heart-thrilling voice ! 
 O Truth, in characters of blood anneal' d ! 
 
 By words, by sighs, by His example seal'd, 
 Who made the lowest place His earnest choice : 
 Once only His meek Spirit did rejoice, 
 
 That this His Wisdom was to babes reveal' d. 
 
CUEIST BEARING THE CEOSS. 107 
 
 4. 
 
 M Whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after Me, 
 cannot be My disciple.' ' 
 
 Oh, may we with an ever-deepening fear 
 
 Gaze on these sorrows, where Thy Form is found 
 With one Hand leaning on the bleeding ground — 
 
 One Hand that heavy burden strives to bear ! 
 
 Thus may we to that awful cup draw near 
 Thou had'st to drink amid that multitude, — 
 Draw near, and look into that cup of Blood, 
 
 And see our very selves reflected there. 
 We too must of a cup of sorrow drink ; 
 
 Our destined road is called "the vale of tears," 
 
 Where we must bear our cross in human fears 
 And sorrows, and to earth in silence sink. 
 
 Each branch put forth in weakness must disclose 
 
 An image of the Tree on which it grows. 
 
 5. 
 
 11 Every one that is perfect shall be as his Master." 
 
 Each branch that is disclosed as it expands 
 Sets forth the Cross, each tendril that anew 
 Is found thereon still hastes to bring to view 
 
 Another and another ; as it stands, 
 
 Each shows the Cross with its outstretching hands, 
 Which seize their branching hold, celestial dew 
 Imbibing, and the soft ethereal blue ; 
 
 Such is the Vine of Salem in all lands. 
 
 Each day, that hath in Cheist its better birth, 
 
 Must bear its Cross ; without that destined load 
 
 'Tis a day lost on the once traversed road 
 To that eternity which springs from time ; 
 It hath no tendrils that may upward climb 
 
 Into the infinite, but falls to earth. 
 
108 CHRIST BEARING THE CROSS. 
 
 " We will not sin, knowing that we are counted Thine." 
 
 Lord, can it be that we, of feeble frame, 
 By taking Thine own burden make it less, 
 And share the weights that on Thy shoulders 
 
 press 
 
 ? 
 
 As he who to the Holy City came, 
 
 Meeting Thee in that hour of Thy distress, 
 
 And followed, — for " obedience " was his name, — 
 Bearing Thy Cross for Thee ; so dost Thou bless 
 
 Obedience, and to Thee dost draw the same, 
 When penitential thoughts within us burn. 
 Yea, if so dear to Thee our love's return, 
 
 That they who see Thy Face at this rejoice, 
 
 Reading therein the Eternal Mind and Voice ; 
 They and their love were present to Thee now, 
 Like a refreshing breeze on Thy faint Brow. 
 
Christ calls t|)c SRomm to JhlMamentatton. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who turning to the women 
 
 THAT LAMENTED THEE, SAIDST, WEEP NOT FOR Me, BUT 
 
 weep for yourselves, and for your children ; pierce 
 my heart through and through with the true wound 
 of grief, that i may mourn over mine iniquities, and 
 sympathise with thee in thy sorrows, o lord my 
 God. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 0)e }3rat>er of fumble %lcct<te. 
 
XIX. 
 THE MOUBNING WOMEN, 
 
 1. 
 
 " But Jesus, turning unto them, said, Daughters of Jeru- 
 salem, weep not for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your 
 children.'' 
 
 How many tears since that portentous morn 
 
 Have been by pilgrims shed in that dear spot, — 
 
 The way of sorrows, or in hallowed grot, 
 Amid as now the unbeliever's scorn, 
 Or at Gethsemane, and altars worn 
 
 By kneeling worshippers, or on the height 
 
 Of Calvary, or e'en at distant sight 
 Of Salem on her mountain-seat forlorn ! 
 
 Lest sin should be forgotten 'mid those tears, 
 When tenderness intense hath wrapt the soul 
 
 Of way-worn pilgrim, hath the stern appeal 
 Of these Thy words, with a Divine control 
 
 Himself unto himself served to reveal, 
 And oped repentance on forgotten years. 
 
112 THE HOTIKSriNO WOMEN. 
 
 " For if they do these things in a green tree — " 
 
 And not alone on Sion's holy ground 
 
 Do these, Thy warning words, knock at the gate 
 Of Conscience, with self-mourning and self-hate, 
 But wheresoe'er the feeling soul is found, 
 Which, half-forgetful of her own deep wound, 
 Weeps at her Sayiour's ills compassionate, 
 But to her own true sorrows wakes too late, 
 Or too remissly. "When the day comes round, 
 
 Each year or week which doth Thy woes present, 
 Or hour which daily marks Thine agonies, 
 So oft upon the soul Thine uprais'd eyes 
 Are turned, — and these Thy words of sorrow call, 
 " Weep not for Me, but your own sins lament, 
 Beneath whose weight unto the ground I fall." 
 
 " What shall be done in the dry ?" 
 
 Weep not for Me, — for thine own children mourn, 
 
 The offspring of thy bowels, evil deeds, 
 
 And evil thought, which from the heart proceeds ; 
 These are the stripes by which My Flesh is torn ; 
 These plant upon My Brows the twisted thorn, 
 
 That as I sink and fall the pavement bleeds. 
 
 For thee I weep, — for thy transcendent needs 
 When on the dead dry tree the fire is born 
 Which never more shall perish or decline ; 
 
 When desolation at thy door appears, 
 Thy visitation past, thy foes around ; 
 
 Therefore I bid thee join thy woes with Mine, 
 While, ere those ever-during flames abound, 
 
 They yet may be extinguished by thy tears. 
 
THE MOUE^IXG WOMEX. 113 
 
 " Thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the 
 increase of it." 
 
 Yea, Xature doth herself the type present 
 Of penitential sorrow to onr eyes, — 
 
 Hanging with elouds the beauteous firmament, 
 
 Not only 'mid fierce storms to winter lent, 
 But also in the tranquil summer skies, 
 
 Where love itself doth seem to spread his tent 
 Above us, 'mid those crystal canopies, 
 Without whose aid on earth each creature dies. 
 
 The unclean spirit banished from the blest, 
 
 Walks ever through dry places seeking rest ; 
 Where not a tear bedews the barren ground, 
 
 But stern impenitence doth aye remain. 
 
 He Who His blessed kingdom spreads around — 
 
 He walketh on the clouds and giveth rain. 
 
 " He sendeth out His word, and melteth them : He bloweth 
 with His wind, and the waters flow.'' 
 
 To Thee mine eyes are turned, the hard rock smite, 
 Grant me Thyself the gracious gift of tears 
 To wash the wilderness of my past years, 
 E'en such as Peter wept, woke by Thy light, 
 -Muffling his face in that o'erwhelming night : 
 Or that loved sinner who 'mid guilty fears, 
 In love o'erflowiug, at Thy feet appears : 
 Or saintly Magdalene, who in Thy sight 
 
 Stood weeping at Thy grave, and thought Thee 
 
 gone 
 From her sad eyes ; those morning dew-drops 
 
 shone 
 In the Sun's beams one moment, then were 
 flown 
 For ever : or as he for his deep stain 
 Wept tears which in his Sion still remain, 
 To crystal turned in penitential strain, 
 i 
 
114 THE MOUENLNG WOMEN. 
 
 6. 
 
 " They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will 
 I lead them : I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters 
 in a straightway." 
 
 The gifts most gracious which descend from high 
 Are things that minister to sacred woe, 
 That we thereby may learn ourselves to know, 
 
 Bringing to view the things that had gone by. 
 
 Thus distant mountains 'neaththe o'erdarken'd sky 
 Come near us, and distinct their shadows show, 
 'Neath clouds whose watery treasures drop below, 
 
 And voices from afar come floating nigh. 
 
 When summer suns grow warm on Cedron's vale, 
 
 That brook of sorrows is no longer seen, 
 The olives on its bank droop sere and pale. 
 
 Thus when the world spreads o'er us skies serene, 
 Forgotten are the thoughts of penitence, 
 Which from dark heavens their fruitful tears 
 dispense. 
 
Christ fe placed upon t!je Cros'3. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who didst suffer for my 
 
 WLVATIOX, GRANT THAT I MAY ALWAYS BEAR ABOUT IX 
 MY BODY THY DYING, THAT I MAY CLEAVE UNTO THY TES- 
 TIMONIES, AND NEVER FORGET THY WORDS. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 Oje priest puts tn ortfer tyz 33rearj anTJ WLint. 
 
 i2 
 
XX. 
 
 THE NAILING TO THE CEOSS. 
 
 1. 
 
 " They shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth ; 
 they shall be afraid of the Lord our God, and shall fear be- 
 cause of Thee." 
 
 The long and heavy Cross extended lies 
 In Golgotha, where on the hideous ground 
 Many a bone and skull is haply found 
 
 Unburied ; and in holes where once were eyes 
 Stables some creeping thing, and looks around, 
 
 And 'mid the wrecks of human miseries 
 
 Bears witness to the worm that never dies 
 
 In the soul's burial-place. What if that sound 
 
 Comes from the depths of secret Providence, 
 
 "Winch speaks of man's first parent buried there ? 
 
 Howbeit, in remembrance of that worm 
 
 Which raised in Paradise its serpent form, 
 
 It seems to mock at his inheritance, 
 
 Cradling itself in crime's worst sepulchre. 
 
118 THE FAILING TO THE CROSS. 
 
 2. 
 
 " Let his net that he hath bid catch himself: into that very 
 destruction let him fall." 
 
 Himself deceived, the sire of death and lies 
 Deems not how soon on that sepulchral floor 
 He this his short-lived triumph shall deplore ; 
 
 That Golgotha he fills with scornful cries 
 
 Is the gate of a better paradise 
 
 Which he shall never enter any more, 
 
 Of which that cruel wood is now the door. 
 
 That Cross he now delights in, to his eyes 
 
 Henceforth shall be a thing at which, recoiled, 
 He to the lowest depths shall sink despoiled, 
 
 As lightning falls from heaven; that Cross shall 
 prove 
 
 The very sceptre of all-conquering love, 
 
 Marked on each brow, and reared the heart within, 
 A refuge from himself and powers of sin. 
 
 3. 
 
 " And laid the wood in order ". . . . " and laid him on the 
 altar upon the wood.' 7 
 
 Upon the ground extended lies the Rood, 
 In substance, not in shadow, to that mount 
 "Which the true Isaac bare. Who shall recount 
 
 His pains, as 'mid the unpitying multitude 
 
 And scornful priests, from His pure virginal 
 
 Flesh, 
 Marked with those livid wounds that bleed afresh, 
 
 They strip His robe adhesive, — on the wood 
 
 They stretch His pallid Body ; with His Blood 
 The One true Priest His Altar doth anoint, 
 As through His outstretch' d palms the iron point 
 
 They drive, and through His feet the piercing 
 wound. 
 His bones may all be number' d, joint by joint. 
 
 The God Who made all creatures, on the ground 
 
 Rack'd on the accursed wood lies prostrate bound ! 
 
THE NAJLINO TO THE CEOSS. 119 
 
 L 
 
 "He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the mul- 
 titude of his bones with strong pain." 
 
 Such was the dying bed Thou didst sustain, 
 
 That mind or body found no place of ease, 
 While mockery stood by, and fierce disdain : 
 
 But us 'mid all our sins, if Thou should' st please 
 
 To lay at death's dark portal, while disease 
 Doth drop by drop our ebbing life-blood drain, 
 
 Thou sett'st around us tender offices, 
 And makest soft with love the bed of pain, 
 
 While watchers which about us gently stir 
 Are taught by Thee ; and e'en far more than those, 
 
 Thou art Thyself our very Comforter ; 
 From that our pillow of desired repose 
 
 Thou tak'st the thorns, and for Thine own dost 
 wear, 
 Laying Thine Head upon their piercing throes. 
 
 4 ' When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord, 
 and my prayer came in unto Thee." 
 
 Lord, I have gazed upon approaching death, 
 
 When things which this our earthly sojourn bless 
 Seemed as in distance growing less and less. 
 
 Nor knew before what love then cherisheth, 
 
 Spreading the everlasting Arms beneath, 
 So terrible in Thy deep tenderness, 
 Which tears alone in silence can express, 
 
 With the faint sinking frame and failing breath. 
 Then, 'mid the agonies of mortal fear, 
 
 When dark eternity knocked at the door, 
 
 In utter helplessness and guilty pain 
 
 Did Thy absolving keys my soul sustain ; 
 
 Conscious at that dread hour that Thou wast near, 
 
 I felt a blessedness unknown before. 
 
120 THE NAILING TO THE CROSS. 
 
 " I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His 
 wrath.' ' 
 
 But not so was Thine own departing bed, 
 
 When they of Thine acquaintance stood aloof, 
 Their love in fear forgotten, and reproof 
 
 Had broke Thine heart, when in that hour so dread 
 
 All was out-poured on Thine unsheltered Head, 
 Which stood the impetuous storm in our behoof ; 
 When terrors throng' d the sky's o'er-arching roof, 
 
 And evil spirits were around Thee shed. 
 
 Then as the nails Thy tender hands did strain, 
 When cruelty sought out each place of pain 
 
 So did the sinews of Thine heart give way 
 Beneath the arrows of the Almighty's wrath, 
 When Thou didst stand in our descending path 
 
 To take on Thee our load in sad dismay. 
 
Ei)e CvoSS is rafectt up. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Whom I now behold lifted up 
 from the earth ; draw me after thee according to 
 Thy word, that my heart may be separated from 
 this world, and have its conversation in hfiaven. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 Z\)t ©nest takes up tty Jteten. 
 
XXI, 
 THE CEOSS LIFTED UP. 
 
 1. 
 
 " And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men 
 
 unto Me.'' 
 
 And now, with strength combined of murderous 
 hands, 
 
 The Cross uplifted Thy pale Erame sustains, 
 
 Hooted and fixed with violence, which strains 
 Thy wounds afresh ; and as it upward stands, 
 Thine own deep wounds themselves are made the 
 bands 
 
 That hold Thee on death's bed; with bursting 
 veins 
 
 Thy Body hangs upon its own dread pains. 
 Each way extending, broad as Thy commands, 
 
 Deep as Thy judgments, as Thy mercies high, 
 It stretches forth, and shows with mystic sign 
 The breadth, and depth, and height of Love Divine, 
 Which forms ineffably that throne of Thine ; 
 
 Broad as all space in boundless majesty, 
 
 Deeper than hell, and higher than the sky. 
 
124 THE CEOSS LIFTED UP. 
 
 2. 
 
 " I became dumb, and opened not my mouth ; for it was 
 Thy doing." 
 
 Thus He "Who is Himself the Eternal Truth 
 Turns into truth these shadows as they pass, 
 And makes men's evil deeds to be the glass 
 
 To mirror His perfections ; for, in sooth, 
 
 He works His will alike in weal or ruth. 
 As shadows that fleet o'er the waving grass 
 Are but reflections of the cloudy mass 
 
 That range the heavens above, and vex or soothe 
 The summer skies, filling the passive hills 
 
 "With thunder-falls or spots of dark repose ; 
 E'en so whate'er for final good He wills 
 
 In man's free agencies He will disclose ; — 
 
 Infinite Love ! though man, 'neath seeming ills, 
 
 Knows not His coming steps, nor where He goes. 
 
 tl He that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin." 
 
 And now the lifting-up sets open wide 
 The gates of agony : thus to fulfil 
 The accumulated crown of murderous skill. 
 They who are lifted heavenward, by His side, 
 Upon their Cross in patience must abide. 
 
 Because He willed, He suffered ; 'tis the will 
 That sanctifies the suffering, and sets still 
 Each thought that to impatience is allied ; 
 
 'Tis suffering that affords the wond'rous price 
 To every guilt-atoning sacrifice. 
 The offerings of Cain were fruits of earth, 
 Not sanctified by suffering, nothing worth ; 
 But Abel's worthier gift was of the slain, 
 And dying animals that spoke of pain. 
 
THE CROSS LIFTED UP. 125 
 
 4. 
 
 44 He stood between the dead and the living ; and the plague 
 was stayed." 
 
 When Thou wast laid on the sin-cursed ground 
 (Man's hiding-place until the day of doom), 
 It, sanctified by Thee, became the womb 
 
 Of Eesurrection. Now, 'mid skies around, 
 
 The living Victim to the Altar bound, 
 'Mid universal nature's dreadful gloom 
 Thou shedd'st Thy light our darkness to illume ; 
 
 With patience and with love immortal crowned, 
 Our Conqueror lifted on Thy throne ; and there, 
 Pursuing through his realms the prince of air ; 
 
 From soul-destroying vapours and disease 
 Clearing the foul and poisonous atmosphere ; 
 
 Henceforth a road for saints to mount the skies, 
 Full of celestial and sweet influences. 
 
 " To set up on high those that be low; that those which 
 mourn may be exalted to safety." 
 
 The Cross is lifted up on Calvary's height, 
 
 And we thereby are lifted up to Heayen ; 
 
 Such earth-redeeming power therein is given. 
 The beasts may earthward bend their lowering sight, 
 But man doth bear his countenance upright, 
 
 That he may gaze upon the Cross and live, 
 
 And our affections so may upward strive, 
 Taking their wing from thence and power of flight 
 
 To Heaven. O Form of everlasting fire, 
 Fed by the anointing of the oil of loye, 
 
 Be Thou within us, that we never tire, 
 By stern self-sacrifice sustain' d above ; 
 But still our busy thoughts may upward move, 
 
 And ever to their heavenly home aspire. 
 
126 THE CROSS LIFTED TIP. 
 
 6. 
 
 " He that findeth his life shall lose it ; and he that loseth his 
 life for My sake shall find it." 
 
 There is a tale in Eastern fable told 
 
 Of a magnetic isle in distant seas, 
 
 To which, as barks borne by the heavenly breeze 
 Approach, in manner strange and manifold, 
 The iron spars no longer keep their hold, 
 
 Bnt part in snnder. Thns when ride at ease, 
 
 Knit by a thousand iron purposes, 
 The full-rigged schemes of worldlings proud and bold, 
 
 They loosely walk, as on a summer sea, 
 
 Upon their own unfathomed destiny ; 
 But if by timely Providences driven 
 To Thee, the stable Truth and land of Heaven, 
 Then all their worldly homes are sunder riven, 
 
 And they who seize the Wood* are borne to Thee. 
 
 * " God has afforded the plank or wood by which we may 
 reach the shore, and that wood is the Cross of Christ. One 
 who has no eyes to see embraces this Cross ; and while from 
 afar he knows not whither he is to go, if he looses not his hold 
 on this wood, it will bear him to it." — S. Augustin, in Joan, 
 Evan. ii. 
 
i3lootl dropping from tl)e Cross. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who diust give Thy most holy 
 Blood to flow from Thine whole Body, in order 
 that Thou mightest wash us from six ; forgive me 
 all mine iniquities, and deliver me from the lake of 
 Hell. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 5Tf)e <Prit*t talus tJ)e Cup into i)te i)an*. 
 
XXII. 
 THE CEOSS DEOPPING BLOOD. 
 
 1. 
 
 ' It is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul." 
 " Ye shall pour it upon the earth as water." 
 
 Blood from His Hands is falling, drop by drop, 
 And from His Temples ; now in streams they 
 
 roll- 
 Haste downward to the earth as to their goal ; 
 
 Now hang on His pale Body, and there stop, 
 
 Or on the wood below ; till from the top 
 
 Unto the base the blood-stains mark the whole. 
 Such is the value of each human soul, 
 
 AMiich doth outweigh the world ; and such the crop 
 Of thorns which Adam sowed in Paradise. 
 
 What marvel, then, at sight of such deep woe, 
 If penitential love should hide her eyes 
 
 From all the pleasant things which are below, 
 In cloistral cells of prayer ; nor seek relief 
 But in each sternest discipline of grief ? 
 
 K 
 
130 THE CROSS DROPPING BLOOD. 
 
 2. 
 
 M Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of.'' 
 
 For doubtless hence whatever things belong 
 
 To shame, and pain, and bodies mortified 
 
 To Heavenward aspirations are allied, 
 With an intercommunion strange and strong. 
 Love from the ever-present sense of wrong 
 
 Finds no repose, save when she can abide 
 
 On any image of the Crucified, 
 Which in herself she finds, her sins among. 
 
 For else the Church could nothing do but mourn 
 With lamentable moans, like one unblest ; 
 
 But when she finds her cross she upward springs, 
 Herself forgetting ; like the dove forlorn, 
 
 When cross-ways she expands her balanced wings 
 On bosom of the sky she is at rest. 
 
 3. 
 
 u Thou feddest Thine own people with angels' food." 
 
 When veins which swell with sensuous low desire 
 Are emptied and made thin with abstinence, 
 Thy Blood Divine shall from the heart dispense 
 
 To all the frame Its own celestial fire, 
 
 Known but in thoughts which upward shall aspire, 
 Felt not nor seen ; but throughout every sense 
 Send forth the savour of Omnipotence, 
 
 To cleanse the will diseased, and to attire 
 Decaying limbs with immortality ; 
 
 Which, after they put off the sinful flesh, 
 
 With undecaying light shall bloom afresh ; 
 Obedience henceforth lost in love divine, 
 The body all celestial discipline, 
 
 Filled with Eesurrection and with Thee. 
 
THE CB0SS DROPPING BLOOD. 131 
 
 ' s Tbe elements were changed in themselves by a kind of 
 harmony." 
 
 'Tis Thou dispensest the life-giving shower 
 
 Through the vine's verdant veins, its hue and 
 
 shape 
 Instilling, till there hangs the purple grape, 
 
 And we discern the hidden Bridegroom's power 
 
 In water changed to wine : or thence that flower 
 Nurturing to be Thy Passion's portraiture, 
 In semblance of Thy sorrows to endure ; 
 
 With hanging thorny crowns, and leaves spread o'er 
 Like human-fingered palms, which bring to view 
 
 Thy pains for us on the accursed Tree. 
 
 Thus with Thy Blood as with celestial clew, 
 The kingdom of the soul Thou dost renew 
 
 With fruits and flowers divine, where angels see 
 
 Nought but developments which speak of Thee. 
 
 "That Thy children, O Lord, whom Thou lovest, might 
 know that it is not the growing of fruits that nourisheth man ; 
 but that it is Thy Word." 
 
 So shall Thy Blood become to us new wine, 
 New wine of God, that maketh glad the heart 
 Of the meek soul that hath in Thee her part ; 
 
 And multiplied throughout in every sign, 
 
 Thy death our life, Thy memories are a shrine 
 From evil thoughts. Yea, from ourselves Thon 
 
 art 
 Our covering and our refuge. Ne'er to start 
 
 Away from this the spirit's rest divine, 
 
 Allured by cares or pleasures, love or strife, 
 To the bad world ; but here for this short life, 
 
 In Thy dear Blood upon ourselves to gaze, 
 
 As in a fountain lit by the sun's rays : 
 
 In Thee, the Eternal Mind, ourselves to know — 
 This is the highest wisdom here below. 
 k 2 
 
132 THE CROSS DROPPING BLOOD. 
 
 " Where water stood before, dry land appeared ; and out of 
 the Red Sea a way without impediment.' ' 
 
 Nor wonder that the blood of Very Gtod 
 
 In union with our manhood hath such power 
 To change our being in this life's short hour ; 
 So that, awakened from an earthly clod, 
 Christ shall lead forth with His Almighty rod 
 Sons to replenish Heaven ; as the fair flower 
 Springs upward, quickened by the vernal shower, 
 'Mid foulest elements of mouldering sod, 
 The refuse of the world ; as worms of earth 
 To fair- winged flies that soar to heaven give birth : 
 Thus, quickened by His Blood, to life shall move 
 The spirits which shall dwell with God above, 
 'Mid things which here offend the delicate sense. 
 And self-debasing arts of penitence.* 
 
 * Infructuosse arbori stercus adhibitum figura poenitentiee. — 
 S. August. , vol. v. p. 1529, Par. ed. 
 
Cfjrist praps for S>tS fHuvoerers. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 () Lord Jesu Christ, Who on the altar of the 
 Cross didst offer up Thyself to the Eternal Fa- 
 ther for them that crucified Thee ; grant that I 
 
 MAY BE MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART, AND MAY LOVE 
 MINE ENEMIES. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 " Oaijtcl) is aijeB for j)ou antt for man;/ 1 
 
XXIII. 
 CHEIST PEATS FOE HIS EXEMIES. 
 
 1. 
 
 M When we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the 
 death of His Son." 
 
 To love, be loved, and loved to love again, 
 This, this is human at man's best estate: 
 To love not loved, with good to antedate 
 
 All love ; to pour forth good, and thence obtain 
 
 Neglect, unthankfulness, and proud disdain ; 
 To yearn in tender love compassionate 
 O'er enemies that triumph in their hate; 
 
 To pray amid the agonies of pain 
 
 For stern tormentors : this — this is Divine ; 
 
 This is the inextinguishable Flame 
 
 That from the Cross, as from a central shrine, 
 
 Doth quicken all Creation ; this above 
 Writes up the incommunicable Xame 
 
 In burning characters, That God is Love. 
 
136 CHETST PEATS FOR HIS ENEMIES. 
 
 u God is Love." 
 
 Love amid sufferings seen ; oh, wondrous sight ! 
 Unearthly Love, the everlasting Fire, 
 His Head encircled with the bleeding brier, 
 
 Amid His foes with strange unharming might, 
 
 Consumes not, but sends forth celestial light, 
 Feeding on heaped-up ills ; thence to aspire, 
 With ampler volume, higher still and higher 
 
 Upward into its native Infinite ; 
 
 Building upon the woes which men have feared 
 
 A ladder whereon saints to Heaven may rise. 
 
 By mystic staff brought forth to human eyes, 
 Thus, feeding on the sacrifice, appeared 
 Flames from the rock, and as they upward veered, 
 
 The angel sought therein his native skies. 
 
 3. 
 
 " They are Thine, O Lord, Thou lover of souls ; for Thine 
 incorruptible Spirit is in all things." 
 
 What are the pillars that support the skies, 
 Holding the mirror of heart-cheering blue ? 
 'Tis all-embracing Love that comes to view, 
 
 Whose pillars are the prayers of Him Who dies 
 
 For good and evil, friends and enemies. 
 
 What is the earth, with every form and hue 
 Through each successive season ever new, 
 
 But Love, whose fostering bosom never dries ; 
 Whose adamantine arms are spread beneath, 
 Sustaining just and unjust until death ? 
 
 And what are seas majestic as they move, 
 
 With moon and stars that sleep upon their breast, 
 As on the shore they rise, then sink to rest ; 
 
 What do their mighty throbbings speak but — Love ? 
 
CHRIST PRAYS FOR HIS ENEMIES. 137 
 
 " And he that dwelleth in Love dwelleth in God, and God 
 in hiin." 
 
 But more than all in men of spirit poor, 
 
 When sickness or pale fasts the feelings bless, 
 Love comes to man in her unearthly dress ; 
 
 Tilings long since passed, that she shall see no more, 
 
 Approach her from the everlasting shore ; 
 And something of a solemn tenderness 
 The overflowing spirit will oppress. 
 
 While of occasions which had once touched sore, 
 And ministered unkindness, nought remains 
 But grieving Love, which with unquiet pains, 
 Fain would undo Hate's sin-engendering stains, 
 
 But cannot : inwardly the spirit bleeds, 
 
 And for herself and others ceaseless pleads ; 
 
 While nothing else but prayer can speak her needs. 
 
 5. 
 
 " Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." 
 
 A little child that folds in love's embrace 
 
 One that had harmed it, and forgives the wrong- 
 Of all things which to earth, sea, sky belong, 
 This is the fairest ; for it finds a place 
 Within the better kingdom of God's grace, 
 Filling us with emotions deep and strong, 
 Which seek a vent in tears or holy song ; 
 
 And sets to view the Infant Saviour's Face 
 More than the painter's skill, — the Holy Child 
 To those that harmed Him more than reconciled, 
 With meek forgiveness His avenging rod ; 
 Bringing on foes the Presence of their G-od, 
 That Presence which is love yet coals of fire, 
 Melting to penitence the murderer's ire. 
 
138 CHEIST PEATS FOE HIS EHEMIES. 
 
 6. 
 
 " Charity never failetb." 
 
 Then, Lokd, for this Thy Cross and Thy dear sake, 
 Teach me that hard-earned skill of loving all, 
 Eoes, friends, and good and evil, great and small; 
 
 Of all things wherein self doth pleasure take 
 
 My being to unclothe, and from me shake 
 AH those impediments and weights that fall 
 On the up-veering wing, or sounds that call 
 
 From behind : thus my steadfast bent to make, 
 And the undeviating course to choose, 
 Till all that's mine and mine own self I lose 
 
 In everlasting Love ; and seen no more : 
 As birds that fly into the sunlight, till 
 The eye can no more follow them, o'er hill, 
 
 And valley, and deserted silent shore. 
 
Christ promises $3aratoise. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who saidst unto the thief, 
 
 WHICH HANGED WITH THEE ON THE CROSS, TO-DAY SHALT 
 THOU BE WITH Me IN PARADISE ; LOOK THOU UPON ME, 
 
 and have mercy upon me, and in the hour of death 
 receive Thou my spirit. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 " dfor ti)e remission of sins." 
 
XXIV. 
 THE PEOMISE OF PARADISE. 
 
 1. 
 
 14 Where I am, there shall also My servant be." 
 
 Not in the dark meridian firmament 
 
 Would we discern our God ; not in that cloud, 
 
 Nor in that Voice in dying heard aloud, 
 Which shook creation, and the strong rocks rent ; 
 But in that pitying voice of One halt-spent, 
 
 Beneath of coming death the silent shroud, 
 
 Which prayer of the meek penitent allowed ; 
 And still small answer of the Omnipotent, 
 
 AVhich spoke of endless morn ere day was run, 
 
 In Paradise, lit by the eternal Sun. 
 Oh, that before I die that gentle word 
 
 Might come unto my spirit, breathing rest ; 
 
 Then worlds might part asunder, in my breast 
 Nothing but that small Voice shall more be heard ! 
 
142 THE PEOMISE OP PAEADISE. 
 
 " O let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before 
 Thee ; according to the greatness of Thy power preserve Thou 
 those that are appointed to die." 
 
 Prom this Thy Mercy-seat, before all eyes, 
 
 Thou stretchest forth Thine arms unto all space, 
 Inviting all unto Thy love's embrace — 
 
 All comprehending as the summer skies, 
 
 Which bend to earth with fostering charities. 
 But upon whom, and in what hour of grace, 
 Dost Thou lift up Thy beatific Pace, 
 
 With whispering Voice that speaks of Paradise ? 
 Not on the rich, the many, or the great : 
 
 On one alone ; on one, in this world's view, 
 A wretched outcast, scorned and desolate ; 
 
 Who shares the Cross with Thee and owns it due, 
 Claiming the King of sorrows as his own, 
 And 'neath the o'erwhelming cloud discerns His 
 throne. 
 
 " He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his 
 life shall see the light." 
 
 Oh, might I 'neath that shadow find repose 
 In the assured hope of endless morn, 
 As all things I behold are westward borne 
 Unto their setting and the daylight's close \ 
 But while I see Thy Pace in dying throes, 
 A thousand voices call to me to mourn, 
 And cry aloud within my breast forlorn, 
 Ah, no ! ah, no ! thou canst not be as those, 
 Or as that penitent who, in his pangs, 
 Upon the bed of death in sorrow hangs ! 
 Oh, faith beyond all faithfulness ! when all 
 Porsook and fled, when e'en Apostles fall, 
 As death's dark valley they together trod, 
 He in the Man of Sorrows knows his God. 
 
THE PROMISE OF PARADISE. 1 ±:j 
 
 4. 
 
 14 When my heart is in heaviness I will think upon God>" 
 
 But iii that dreadful secret not to press, 
 And with no vain presuming confidence 
 Of what must be at our departure hence, 
 
 While sitting at death's portal we confess 
 
 The heart-felt sense of our unworthiness 
 
 Of aught but pains ; then with no vain pretence 
 The Spirit Which is veiled from outward sense 
 
 May in the sight of his own nothingness 
 Comfort the mourner ; for, in very deed, 
 
 We know full well the hour of pressing need 
 
 Is the time ever chosen for relief, 
 
 And prayer hath comfort in the hour of grief; 
 Such grace hath Baptism unto suffering given ; 
 Yet Love still fears on verge of Hell or Heaven. 
 
 " I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily." 
 *' My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all 
 night upon my branch." 
 
 The lily, some lone fountain's favoured child, 
 Holds all aloof from intercourse of earth, 
 Wherein it has below its secret birth ; 
 
 But in some watery hollow, free and wild, 
 
 Lifts up its virgin whiteness, undefiled, 
 
 Suffused with blushes ; when the sun grows warm 
 Stretches its stalk erect, and lifts its form 
 
 Above the pool's calm face awhile beguiled; 
 
 But when night's shades come on, its air-borne 
 
 crest 
 Contracts again, folds up its blooming breast, 
 And on the watery surface is at rest. 
 
 Thus though awhile the spirit proudly shows, 
 
 Yet only, when the shades around her close, 
 
 On her baptismal waters finds repose. 
 
144 THE PKOMISE OF PARADISE. 
 
 "They shall be amazed at the strangeness of his salvation 
 beyond all that they looked for.'' 
 
 Yet surely often no enlivening ray 
 
 Doth lighten the dark valley at its close, 
 When busy thought finds no place for repose, 
 
 But ever-during dark shuts out the day. 
 
 Yea, e'en on pure meek spirits oft dismay 
 Hangs, and expectance of the penal woes : 
 In that deep water-flood which o'er them goes, 
 
 Of God's dark judgments, none can trace the way. 
 Yet such are blessed, if thus made at last 
 Like to the Son of God ; and when 'tis past, 
 
 Where on the clay-cold features and closed eyes, 
 
 Death sits, there cometh forth a glad surprise, 
 Which says it is "far better,"* or in doom 
 They hear, yet scarce believe, the blessed 
 a Come!' 5 t 
 
 * Phil. i. 23. f S. Matt. xxv. 34. 
 
Cijrtet romnuirta $>i$ {Bother to &. 3of)n. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who saidst unto Thine Apos- 
 tle S. John, " Behold thy Mother," and didst there- 
 by INTIMATE THAT THY FAITHFUL ONES ARE AS BROTHERS 
 UNTO THEE ; LOOK UPON US, WE BESEECH THEK, NOT 
 AS SERVANTS, BUT AS THY BRETHREN, THAT WE MAY 
 ALSO BE JOINT-HEIRS WITH THEE OF THY KINGDOM. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 So tl)t$ in Remembrance of jftfte." 
 
XXV. 
 THE BLESSED VIKGIX AXD S. JOHN. 
 
 1. 
 
 u Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should 
 not have compassion on the son of her womb ? Yea, they 
 may forget, yet will I not forget thee." 
 
 Xot iii the glowing centre of all bliss, 
 But in the sea of overwhelming woe, 
 Of sorrow beyond sorrows which men know, 
 
 The Teacher's chair is set ; the dark abyss 
 
 Surrounds Him, yet can move no thought amiss, 
 Or ruffle with impatience His meek Brow, 
 Calm as the face of summer lake. And now 
 
 What is the lesson at death's gate, but this — - 
 The touching lore of filial piety, 
 
 With human sweet affections at the close, 
 
 Amid the multitude of dying throes ? 
 
 And these Thy loving words for ever rest, 
 
 Like a rose-tinged cloud on evening sky 
 That lingers, of the golden rays possessed. 
 l 2 
 
148 THE BLESSED VIRGIN AND S. JOHN. 
 
 2. 
 
 " Their soul was poured out into their mother's bosom." 
 
 That cloud is soon to fall in tears, when night 
 Drops on that Mother of all mothers — left 
 To solitude and stillness, and bereft 
 
 Of hope beyond all hope, and guiding light. 
 
 The sword is in her soul, and out of sight 
 
 Her wounds drop tears of blood, yet every pang 
 Is known to Him Whose death-pale looks now 
 hang, 
 
 In pity and compassions infinite, 
 
 IJpon His Mother. Mother ! blessed name 
 
 Of mother nearest to the human heart ! 
 
 Affection first to come, last to depart ! 
 
 And He, "Who all things hallows to new love, 
 Shall to His children grant His Church to claim 
 
 As Mother, and a filial love to prove. 
 
 3. 
 
 " Thou art a place to hide me in." 
 
 If such Thy blessing upon filial love, 
 
 That it should be the root of love Divine 
 
 And semblance, and, matured in hallowed shrine, 
 
 Nurtured and fed by dews of Heaven, should prove 
 
 Love of a Father Who doth dwell above ; — 
 Itself diffusing in all discipline, 
 
 Beneath the fostering of the eternal Dove ; — 
 Then, Lord, how awful was that love of Thine 
 
 To her that bore Thee in a virgin's womb, 
 
 Upon whose breasts Thine infant yearnings hung, 
 To whom Thine infant hymns of praise were sung, 
 
 Who watched Thy dying, saw Thee in the tomb ? 
 But in compassion to our spirits frail, 
 All is withdrawn within the silent veil. 
 
THE BLESSED VIBGIN AXD S. JOHN. 119 
 
 " lie that loveth father or mother more than Me is not 
 worthy of Me." 
 
 And yet e'en filial love Thou hast put by, 
 
 In singleness of spirit to sustain 
 
 And build the vails of Thine unearthly reign, 
 Which doth require a nobler piety. 
 
 As where the Sun meridian mounts on high, 
 The shadows pass away from hill and plain, 
 And nothing but the substance doth remain 
 
 Beneath the blue encircling of the sky ; 
 Or as when Day doth his broad pinions shake, 
 The lantern worms which shone within the brake 
 
 Hide, and the lights which heaven's high pathway 
 trod. 
 So are all lesser duties full of one 
 Which all fulfils, — the presence of our Sun ; 
 
 And filial love is lost in love of God. 
 
 5. 
 
 "Whosoever shall do the will of My Father Which is in 
 Heaven, the same is My brother, and sister, and mother." 
 
 Wonderful nearness unto God made Man, 
 " My brother, sister, mother !" thus we see 
 Strangely fulfilled that other mystery ; 
 
 To Thy true children, in the eternal plan, 
 
 Manifold more vouchsafed for life's short span. 
 As " brethren, sisters, mothers,"* and to be 
 
 The pledge of everlasting life with Thee ; 
 
 Kindred that turn not to the grey and wan, 
 But C heist our very Brother— gracious gift ! 
 
 " My earthly Mother I to thee resign, — 
 
 My Mother, loved disciple, to be thine ; 
 Thou of thy kindredf art for Me bereft, 
 By Me awhile and by thy brother J left : 
 
 Yet I am still thy Brother, thou art Mine." 
 
 * Mark x. 30. f Matt. iv. 22. J Acts xii. 2. 
 
150 THE BLESSED YIKOIN AND S. JOHN. 
 
 ''Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods 
 drown it." 
 
 " "Woman, behold thy son!" — him that finds rest 
 Upon the bosom of Goodness Infinite, 
 Till truth, and love, and everlasting light, 
 
 "Were ever on his tongue and in his breast. 
 
 Oh, above women she, and he most blest 
 
 Of men ; though now of all, to human sight, 
 Most pitiable both, with nought but night 
 
 Around their sorrows ! with their weight oppress' d, 
 He takes thee to his home with nursing care. 
 
 And yet what home hath he who nothing hath, 
 
 Except to share his solitary path, 
 
 Bereaved with thee bereaved ? yea, 'tis to share 
 
 The twofold light of faith amid the gloom, 
 
 And in the Will Divine to find a home. 
 
Cijrist expiring on tf)t Cross. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who saidst at Thy death. 
 Father, into Thy hands I commend My Spirit: grant, 
 I pray Thee, that I, being dead unto sin, may live 
 unto Thee. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 Cfje SreatJ broken an* fctbiUeti. 
 
XXYI. 
 CHBIST EXPIEIXG OX THE CEOSS. 
 
 , 1. 
 
 "I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to 
 die." 
 
 With Eyes which now are closed, now ope anew, 
 As spirits faintly ebb and faintly flow 
 In dying ; with pale Head that now droops low, 
 
 Now turns this side, now that, with death's cold dew 
 
 Suffused ; now faint upraising turns to view, 
 
 With prayers that look to Heaven, as some sore 
 
 woe 
 Breaks on the languishment of death ; and now 
 
 The slumbers of the grave press and pursue 
 Retiring life ; while faint, with fevered tongne, 
 
 He thirsts, — with heart that burns to do God's will; 
 
 He thirsts, — each word prophetic to fulfil : 
 
 And thus, with trembling hands, His foes among, 
 
 Seizes and holds the cup of bitterness, 
 
 To His parched lips the dregs of woe to press. 
 
154 CHRIST EXPIRING ON THE CROSS. 
 
 " Love is strong as death." 
 
 On sable wings, o'er shadowing the sun's rays, 
 Death came, as to his own appointed reign, 
 Where he beheld the torturing beds of pain, 
 
 Scenting afar his quarry. "With amaze 
 
 He back recoils, and upon One doth gaze 
 Whom he hath had no warrant to detain ; 
 Sinless, and yet with sorrows, his sad train, 
 
 Consorting. At the sight he doubting stays, 
 Till He Who issued from the Virgin's womb, 
 With voice omnipotent that cried aloud, 
 Showed Himself, amid nature's awful gloom, 
 
 Stronger than death in dying ; then resigned 
 Himself a willing Victim ; dying bowed, 
 
 And on His Father's Breast His Head reclined. 
 
 " I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do." 
 
 " Tis finished!" That voice hath reached the shore 
 
 Of never-ending ages, and more far 
 
 Than hath been traversed by the highest star ; 
 Swifter than lightning it hath pierced the door 
 Of Hell, and echoes there for evermore. 
 
 'Tis finished: Death from life's theatre 
 
 The everlasting portals doth unbar, 
 The sinless Soul hath passed, and all is o'er. 
 
 It is a moment which we all must see, 
 
 On which there hangs a whole eternity, 
 And which to each can be but once ; when they 
 Who now in Heaven watch this our trial day 
 
 Shall to each other say, " 'tis finished ;" 
 And men on earth shall whisper, "he is dead." 
 
CHRIST EXPIRING 0^ THE CEOSS. 155 
 
 " Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of 
 death, I will fear no evil ; for Thou art with me." 
 
 This thought it is which, if our love were cold, 
 Might lead us still, from very sympathy. 
 To hang our eager eyes and hearts on Thee : 
 
 That this most fearful moment must be told, 
 
 AVhose memory shall never more grow old ; 
 
 And that we have no strength in that dread hour 
 But that which emanates from this Thy power 
 
 In dying. Mortals now most proud and bold, 
 "Who set at nought that hour, shall then most 
 need 
 
 Thy succour, and a heart to Thee fast knit 
 In fellowship of suffering, used to feed 
 
 On Thee, and by austere self-ride made fit 
 
 For thoughts which ever from Thy Cross proceed, 
 
 'Xeath which all penitential mourners sit. 
 
 5. 
 
 " Let us go forth, therefore, unto Him without the camp, 
 bearing His reproach." 
 
 The goat, for the Loed's household to atone, 
 Bleeding and slain upon the altar lay, 
 As the most Sacred Body on this day : 
 The living goat, which, when all else was done,* 
 Was let go to the wilderness unknown, 
 " Bearing the sins of many," did portray 
 The Sacred Sold, which suffered such dismay 
 And sorrow, and from sight of men was gone. 
 Victims on which were laid the sins of men 
 Polluted and polluting were, and then 
 " Without the gate," as some accursed thing, 
 Cast forth : and surely this Sin-offering 
 Were one accepted, and of boundless price. 
 If shame and pain can mark a sacrifice. 
 
 * See Levit. xvi. 20 : " And when he had made an end,' 
 &c ; compare with John xix. 28, 3'.>. 
 
156 CHEIST EXPIRING OK THE CROSS. 
 
 6. 
 
 " She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her 
 cheeks/' 
 
 Kizpah, that keepeth watch upon her Seven, 
 Sets forth the sevenfold grief of her bereaved 
 Of Him "Who seven fulfils, until received 
 
 Into the Eighth of Rest, the day of Heaven, 
 The sixth is now consummate ; this same even 
 
 Man was in Eden made ; and now, reprieved 
 
 From Eden's curse, mankind, in Cueist relieved, 
 Shall enter on the Sabbath, where 'tis given 
 
 To rest alone with God. Thus now I know, 
 
 Daughter of Aiah, why thy sorrows so 
 To holy mention have been consecrate ; 
 And why thy weeping form early and late 
 On Gibeah's hill sits sad and desolate, 
 
 The image of another's deeper woe. 
 
 
Ci)itgt upon tfje Cross. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, that Cross hath verily 
 served to us for the teacher's seat which was to 
 Thee a dying bed ; show us, we beseech Thee, how we 
 may ever be making advances in all virtue, and flee 
 from all vice, so that in the contemplation of thy 
 Passion we may be bruised in heart, and, touched by 
 a sincere sorrow, may smite our breasts. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 11 Cije Both) of our EortJ SJesuS Cljrtst." 
 4< £Z3i)icI) Ion? gibm for tljce." 
 
XXYII. 
 CHEIST'S BODY ON THE CEOSS. 
 
 1. 
 
 " Bat it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be 
 light." 
 
 The dreadful scene is o'er, the woe is past, 
 
 And closed in death ; yet penitential grief 
 
 Clings to the silent Cross ; nor seeks relief 
 Elsewhere but there alone ; the sun o'ercast, 
 Which hid itself in sorrow, now at last 
 
 Looks forth again : but in one day so brief 
 What scenes crowd thick for prayer or calm belief ! 
 Loaded with destinies the minutes haste, 
 
 And in one moment all is finished. 
 
 Man lives, the Giver of all life is dead : 
 Man by His dying lives, by living dies 
 
 To what in him was human, lives to God : 
 Sin dies and man revives ; the serpent lies 
 
 Slain by God-Man on the extended rod. 
 
160 cheist's body on the ceoss. 
 
 " O death, where is thy sting ? O grave, where is thy 
 victory ?" 
 
 How terrible and deep is this repose ! 
 
 There is no stillness like the calm of death 
 
 That stops the beating heart and stills the breath ; 
 For so hath GrOD ordained, that at the close 
 Sad Meditation veil'd in silent woes 
 
 Beneath the shadow of eternity 
 
 May sit, in silence like the evening sky. 
 But this, though companied with dying throes, 
 
 Is not as other deaths ; for Death that seems 
 Upon the still cold limbs and hanging head 
 
 To sit as victor, while he little deems, 
 Himself is by his conquest vanquished : 
 
 Hope in despair is planted ; and the beams 
 Of morning are on day's departing shed. 
 
 " Who going through the vale of misery use it for a well ; 
 and the pools are filled with water. They will go from strength 
 to strength," 
 
 From hall of Judgment, by " the way of woe," 
 To Grolgotha and that sepulchral hill, 
 The numbered " stations'^ mark each spot of ill; 
 
 Whereon with faltering footsteps, sad and slow, 
 
 The pensive pilgrims linger as they go, 
 
 From scene to scene, from step to step, and still 
 From each anew their labouring bosoms fill 
 
 With prayer and praise. Each place, while from 
 below 
 They upward wind, as flowers which bow their 
 
 head 
 Beneath the passing footsteps as we tread, 
 
 Breathes incense of good thoughts, which shall imbue 
 The soul for future years. Thus mindful love 
 May pause upon each theme, and, like the dove, 
 
 In one same measured plaint her strain renew. 
 
 * The " stations '' now observed through the Holy City are 
 fourteen in number. See De Geramb's Palestine, vol. i. xxiii. 
 
cueist's body ox the cross. 161 
 
 u Precept upon precept, precept upon precept ; line upon 
 line, line upon line ; here a little, and there a little." 
 
 Why should I not beneatli the Cross lie still, 
 Recounting o'er and o'er the self-same beads, 
 Though the proud world rides by and nothing 
 heeds, 
 
 While musing Meditation has her fill 
 
 In sonnet after sonnet poured forth, till 
 Goodwill itself is weariness, and needs 
 Variety, to sooth that faith that feeds 
 
 Upon the memories of that dreadful hill 
 
 Of sorrows ? What avails it, if so be 
 That such my melancholy sad delight 
 May profit others ? Nature loves the sight 
 
 Of ordered sameness in variety ; 
 
 How many golden ears in harvest field 
 
 Each like to each their full-grained treasure yield ! 
 
 5. 
 
 " We may speak much, and yet come short." 
 
 How many coral clusters hang and swing 
 Upon the mountain ash along the steep, 
 Which with its blood-red berries seems to weep ! 
 More are they multiplied the more they cling 
 With roots into the rock from whence they spring ; 
 For nature from her treasures vast and deep 
 With everlasting sameness loves to creep 
 Into fresh being ; leaflets fluttering 
 Into new life one impress strive to hold ; 
 Till on one tree, alike though manifold, 
 All fain woidd rim into the self-same mould. 
 The flowers that look erect or hang on ground, 
 The stars that come forth in the blue profound, 
 So numberless, yet seem alike around. 
 M 
 
162 cheist's body on the cross. 
 
 6. 
 
 
 i ' Thy statutes have been my songs : in the house of iny 
 pilgrimage." 
 
 And if of English bards the chief and best, 
 
 Shakespeare and Spenser, such their sonnets wove, 
 On the loose intricacies of creature love ; 
 
 Like each to each as speckled eggs in nest, 
 
 Or azure pearls upon their fair one's breast, 
 Or plumes on neck of the impassioned dove, 
 Or bubbles which on Ocean's surface move, 
 
 Thrown from his labourings deep and dark unrest, 
 As with the breeze they sport, or catch the 
 
 gleam : — 
 Then may I not unblamed, from thoughts that 
 
 teem 
 Mid flowers of Paradise, a nobler theme 
 
 Construct in semblance of the honeyed cells ; 
 
 And, as the self-same measure falls and swells, 
 
 Eing on from morn to eve my music bells ? 
 
€ty Burial of Cf>rfet. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Whom they buried and laid 
 ix a new tomb ; grant that my heart may become to 
 Thee, as it were, a glorious sepulchre, and that, 
 being renewed in the spirit of my mind, i may be 
 accounted worthy of being raised from the dead 
 among Thy Saints and elect children. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 Communion of J3veatJ antt OTtne. 
 
 m 2 
 
XXVIII. 
 THE BI7EIAL OF CHEIST. 
 
 1. 
 
 " Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath days, or to do evil ? 
 to save life, or to kill ?" 
 
 Jeri' salem, is this thy Sabbath deep 
 
 Which with this dreadful stillness doth begin, 
 After the many-voiced and murderous din, 
 
 Where thon would' st have thy Lord His rest to 
 keep, 
 
 In zeal against His life ? O wondrous sleep, 
 Which speaks in Thy redeemed a rest from sin ; 
 A rest which is with Thee that tomb within, — 
 
 Best in the Eock which shall their senses steep 
 In a forgetfulness of all beside, — 
 A Sabbath wherein Thou Thyself shalt hide, 
 
 And work again Thy healing miracles 
 
 Among the dead and dying ; and from thence 
 Choose Thine own penitent that dies to sense. 
 
 And with Thee in the eternal Sabbath dwells. 
 
166 THE BURIAL OF CHEIST. 
 
 2. 
 
 " We are buried with Him by Baptism unto death. " 
 
 Where is Thy resting-place, Loed, after all 
 
 The sufferings of Thy Mesh so long and keen ? 
 
 Where dost Thou keep Thy Sabbath all unseen ? 
 Make Thou my heart as this sepulchral hall, 
 Though filled with recollections that appal ; 
 
 Till from a sepulchre, by Thee made clean, 
 
 It shall become a temple all serene. 
 The World doth still against Thee press her call, 
 
 Some whisper grave and low, and mourning sigh, 
 
 And others loudly cry out, Crucify ! 
 Yea, in each heart the Priests and multitude 
 Against Thee rise. With locks all dripping blood, 
 
 Where shalt Thou rest in the wide world forlorn, 
 
 But in the new-made breast of them that mourn ? 
 
 3. 
 
 " Behold, I stand at the door and knock." 
 
 As Thou didst not abhor the Virgin's womb, 
 Nor the cold uncouth manger, and the stall 
 Of the rude hinds and bleating animal, 
 Nor childhood's bands and Nazareth's low room, 
 Nor touch of unclean sinner, nor the gloom 
 Of Ades, nor the over-hanging cave, 
 Shrouding Thee round with darkness of the grave ; 
 But as the Sun vile places doth illume 
 Untainted by the foulness, so didst Thou, 
 Loving that lowliness which stoop' d so low 
 Prom the Heaven of Heavens, still lowlier love 
 to bow 
 To meanest things on earth, yet take no stain. — 
 Then wilt Thou not a humble Guest e'en deign 
 To enter my poor heart, and there remain ? 
 
THE BUBIAL OF CIIRIST. 167 
 
 4. 
 
 14 They shall look upon Me Whom they have pierced, and 
 they shall mourn for Me as one mourneth for his only son." 
 
 Hard hath my heart been as the stony rock, 
 Yet therein would I make a place for Thee, 
 Where nought that breathes of mortal vanity 
 
 May more be laid, which might Thy sorrows mock ; 
 
 But mournful Contemplation with a stock 
 
 Of better thoughts wait on Thee in my breast. 
 And if Thou thus wouldst come with me to rest, 
 
 I would 'gainst all things else my senses lock ; 
 Like a closed sepulchre, where the rock weeps, 
 
 From very coldness, the ethereal dew 
 
 Condensing into drops, where hid from view 
 Around the cave the weeping moisture creeps. 
 
 So in this evening of my waning years 
 
 I would therein receive Thee with my tears. 
 
 5. 
 
 11 Let us also go, that we may die with Him." 
 
 And if in soul and body, by long pain, 
 All that is earthly shall "be mortified, 
 And Thou therein Thy quickening Presence hide, 
 
 That which is stony wilt Thou burst in twain, 
 
 As from stern winter's womb, and rise and reign 
 In vernal resurrection, — to abide 
 Here in new life by sorrow sanctified 
 
 Awhile, her course of trial to sustain, 
 
 And then arise to Heaven ; thus here below 
 The tide of all my thoughts, that ebb and flow 
 
 In joy or sadness, may in either still 
 Be quickened by an all-inspiring Love, 
 
 And so may move obedient to Thy will, 
 Responsive to the drawings from above. 
 
168 THE BtTEIAL OP CHEIST. 
 
 6. 
 
 " My flesh tremble th for fear of Thee, and I am afraid of 
 Thy judgments. " 
 
 Would tliat my heart were meet to be Thy rest 
 In holy stillness ; would that I might dwell 
 "With Thee alone in this Thy rocky cell, 
 
 And shut out all the world ! O thought most blest, 
 
 And yet of all most dreadful, dispossessed 
 
 Of all things which the self-proud spirit swell, 
 To be alone with Thee — approachable 
 
 By nought but holy thoughts, or thoughts distressed 
 That yearn to be so ! As the solemn night 
 
 In contemplation wrapt and silent gloom, 
 
 With all her stars and covering of thick shade ; 
 
 So this our burial with Thee in the tomb 
 Is semblance of the time when out of sight 
 The disembodied soul with Thee is laid. 
 
Christ's ?3otti) SSHrappetf in Emm. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Whose most sacred Body was by 
 Joseph of Arimathea wrapped in a clean linen cloth, 
 and when wound in linen clothes with the spices 
 was laid in the sepulchre ; grant, i pray thee, that 
 my heart and body may be embalmed with the sweet 
 odour of all virtue, and that thou mayest abide 
 with us for ever. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 Cfje Clements cofcevetf toitf) a dfair 3Mnm Clotlj. 
 
XXIX. 
 
 THE COVEBIXG OE CHRIST'S BODY. 
 
 1. 
 
 " I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end 
 thereof as a bitter day." 
 
 Comes Nicodemus too ? not as of old 
 Muffling his face in mantle of the night, 
 To hold his converse with the Prince of Light, 
 
 But even by despair now rendered bold. 
 
 O blessed hands that lifeless frame to hold, 
 And bear ! O mournful beatific sight ! 
 With eloquent tongue of that sepulchral rite 
 
 Ordained of old, whose fragrant sweets enfold, 
 And speak of Besurrection in the grave ! 
 He dies, when others He had power to save ; 
 
 While women hang the speechless head and weep : 
 
 As when some shepherd for his helpless sheep 
 Is slain, and prostrate lies upon the ground, 
 His flock like downcast mourners stand around. 
 
172 THE COYEEINO OF CHRIST' S BODY. 
 
 2. 
 
 " His rest shall be glorious. " 
 
 Yea, company most blest, most sad below, 
 
 "With odours sweet, (O contravention strange !) 
 To antedate of death the loathsome change ; 
 
 As if to struggle with the last dread foe 
 
 E'en in his own dark kingdom, nor forego 
 The prey that seemed already his, but plant 
 Tokens of joy and living covenant 
 
 E'en in corruption's range of utter woe. 
 
 With linen white and clean for the dark tomb, 
 Like spotless snow from Heaven in winter's gloom, 
 
 Falling upon some still and shadowy night, 
 
 While stars keep watch throughout the infinite ; 
 
 To shelter with its covering soft and bright 
 Dead nature — ere it put on vernal bloom. 
 
 3. 
 
 " And with the rich in His death." 
 
 But what are these, the costly liniment, 
 
 Sabean odours, Araby's perfume, 
 
 That wrap His pallid Body in the tomb ? 
 Was it for this, in sad presentiment, 
 Kings from the rich and fragrant East were sent 
 
 To where that star's pale radiance did illume 
 That stable-cave, wherein a mother leant 
 
 Upon the off; spring of her Virgin womb ? 
 When festal scents of myrrh and frankincense 
 
 Were soon to blend with weeping Rachel's cry, 
 And dying shrieks of murdered Innocents, — 
 While kingly worshippers around Him press, 
 
 And Tyrian garb and gold of Araby 
 Seemed but to mock His cold and nakedness. 
 
THE COYEBIKG OF CUEIST'S I30DT. 173 
 
 4. 
 
 14 A bundle of myrrh is my Well-Beloved unto me." 
 
 But what may these the odorous spices mean 
 
 That are with Thee within the winding-sheet ? 
 
 It is the embalming of affections sweet 
 From bodies mortified and souls serene, 
 That tend Thee in that " linen white and clean," 
 
 "Which is "the righteousness of saints," made 
 meet 
 
 Around Thy bleeding Head and wounded Feet 
 To watch, and in the silent heart unseen, — 
 
 Embalming with the sighs of pensive love, 
 Which fragrance hath of immortality, 
 
 And finds a place among those souls that prove 
 Dead to this world of sense, and hide with Thee ; 
 
 Like Magdalene, whose praise is seal'd above, 
 And breathes on earth for ages yet to be. 
 
 5. 
 
 " In the secret place of His dwelling shall He hide me." 
 
 When such affections in the heart are found, 
 They ever love the solitude and shade, 
 And covered in the grave with Cheist are laid ; 
 
 As lies the fleecy mantle on the ground 
 
 Sheltering the roots, which shall anon abound 
 W r ith Resurrection ; or as buds, afraid 
 Of gales severe or gentle, have arrayed 
 
 Themselves in leafy coverings all around ; 
 Or as the flowers that ope their dewy cup 
 To their own sun, but soon again fold up 
 
 Their fragrant bosom from the nightly dew, 
 Or nipping blasts ; e'en so themselves unclose 
 
 To Cheist the heart's affections ; then from view 
 Hide in the tomb with Him, and there repose. 
 
174 THE COYEEING OF CHBIST's BODY. 
 
 6. 
 
 " Woe is me ! for I am undone ; because I am a man of 
 unclean lips, and dwell in the midst of a people of unclean 
 lips : for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts." 
 
 O that the wondrous secrets of Thine Ark, 
 The Godhead and the Manhood joined in one, 
 Were safe in the withdrawals of Thy throne 
 
 Prom tongues of busy men, where shadows dark 
 
 Environ, and no eye of man can mark, 
 
 Where Faith and Love may entering be alone, 
 And feed on thoughts to adoration known. 
 
 Yet there intrude rash men to blow the spark 
 Of angry disputations, from the coal 
 
 Ta'en from Thine Altar, fill'd with fire of Heaven, 
 To sanctify the lips, and cleanse the soul. 
 
 While at Thy shrine, whence worshippers are driven, 
 Range disputants, which on each other frown, 
 Where Angels veil their faces and bow down, 
 
CfyrtSt vtgen. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who, as Thou hadst foretold, 
 
 DIDST ON THE THIRD DAY ARISE GLORIOUS FROM THE 
 DEAD ; GRANT THAT WE MAY BE MADE PARTAKERS OF THY 
 SUFFERINGS, AND OF THY RESURRECTION, THAT, PUTTING 
 OFF THE OLD MAN WITH HIS DEEDS, WE MAY WALK IN 
 NEWNESS OF LIFE. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 Cije -PosMrommumon. 
 
XXX. 
 
 CHEIST EISEX. 
 
 M Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first 
 fruits of them that slept." 
 
 How beautiful to watch the rising sun, 
 Afar upon the horizon's radiant brim 
 Appearing, 'mid the gathering shadows dim, 
 
 With all which ere his course hath yet begun 
 His rising bright are wont to wait upon ; 
 
 With clouds like burning robes of Seraphim 
 
 xAround him, and Creation's varied hymn 
 Greeting his coming with her benison ! 
 Daily memorial of that glorious morn, 
 
 When the foundations of the world were laid. 
 And sons of God in multitudinous chime 
 Were heard, — prelusive of this better time, 
 Whereon the new creation first is born, 
 
 Arising from a night of darker shade. 
 
178 CHRIST RISEN. 
 
 2. 
 
 " I will yet make doctrine to shine as the morning, and will 
 send forth her light afar off." 
 
 And if Creation to our sight restored 
 Such daily reminiscence brings to view, 
 Much more shall kingdoms of His grace renew 
 
 Memorials of her dead and rising Lord, 
 
 When in our heart of hearts, the Morning true, 
 
 He comes, our daily Bread, — loved and adored, — 
 The Light of lights on our Baptismal dew 
 
 Fresh shining with new day ; the Living Word, 
 At whose command arose light's order stern 
 
 From the abyss, and onward moves till now. 
 Thus oft as from Thine Altar I return, 
 Thy Resurrection doth within me burn ; 
 
 Streams of fresh light upon my spirits flow, 
 
 And bathe my dull affections with their glow. 
 
 3. 
 
 " Neither have entered into the heart of man the things 
 which God hath prepared/' 
 
 But if all power is wont to hide from sight, 
 Like G-od and His good Angels ; as the wind 
 Impels and moulds the clouds, as viewless mind 
 Moves matter, and in mind the impervious might 
 Of reason, passion, or the spiritual light 
 Energise on the will, the purpose bind, 
 With all its secret movements intertwined ; — 
 Much less can aught of sense discern aright, 
 When at God's holy Altar, with new dawn, 
 And healing on His wings, there doth arise 
 
 The Sun of Righteousness ; and in the soul 
 Erom feeling and impassioned sense withdrawn, 
 
 Incarnate GrOD, the Living Altar-coal, 
 Enters the soul, the body sanctifies. 
 
CHRIST RISEN. 179 
 
 4. 
 
 u If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in 
 your sins." 
 
 Christ rises ; — lightning-stricken at the sight, 
 The armed soldiery, who at the tomb 
 Kept their unholy watch, and walked the gloom, 
 
 Fall back, their faces hide in dread affright, 
 
 And like the scared shadows of the night 
 Hasten away : as when the aerial dome 
 The rising moon doth suddenly illume, 
 
 With silent intervention calm and bright 
 Just rising, and the clouds departing fly, 
 
 And flying feebly catch her silver ray. 
 
 E'en so those Heathen thoughts whicluheld their 
 sway, 
 
 And eyer in the heart were hiding nigh, 
 When Christ doth visit us before His way 
 
 Shall flee, and He shall fill the untroubled sky. 
 
 5. 
 
 "If we have been planted together in the likeness of His 
 death, we shall be also in the likeness of His Resurrection.. 
 
 Christ rises ! — not alone, with Him His own 
 Are rising from their graves, and burst the veil, 
 And look again on this their earthly jail, 
 
 E'en as the moon doth not arise alone, 
 
 But watchful sentinels attend her throne, 
 
 Yet love that they themselves should fade and 
 
 fail, 
 In her surpassing lustre dim and pale. 
 
 'Tis thus when Christ within the soul made known 
 His glorious Resurrection shall declare, 
 
 His love and light shall dissipate the gloom ; 
 
 Nor shall He thither unattended come, 
 
 But all the graces with Him make their home, 
 When He the darkness of the soul lays bare, 
 Fain to vouchsafe His gracious Presence there. 
 N 2 
 
180 CHRIST EISE^. 
 
 6. 
 
 •' By the blood of Thy covenant I have sent forth Thy pri- 
 soners out of the pit wherein there is no water." 
 
 " Unbind the grave-clothes, loose him, let him go !" 
 So spake the Lord when Lazarus had risen 
 From the dark night of death's mysterious prison, 
 Opening his eyes to see the day ; and so 
 His ministers absolve and heal the woe, 
 And from death-fetters set the sinner free, 
 Ere he at table sits, good Lord, with Thee. 
 And witnesses there are of all below. 
 
 Christ left the virgin tomb, the twilight shone, 
 An Angel roll'd away the heavy stone, 
 In witness of the triumphs He had won. 
 Thus, too, the blessed Angels at the end, 
 In the great Resurrection, shall descend, — 
 A solemn witness on each soul attend. 
 
Cfjvtet sl)ofo£( feimtftlf to fei$ triples. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who after Thy death wast 
 
 SEEN FIRST OF ALL BY MaRY MAGDALENE, AND AFTER- 
 WARDS by Thy disciples ; may I ever see Thee with 
 
 THE EYES OF A PURE FAITH, WORKING BY LOVE, AND BE 
 AT LENGTH BLESSED BY BEHOLDING THEE InThY GLORY. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 "dFuIfilUa tottlj €f)i) grace anfc fjeabenlg bene* 
 Sutton." 
 
XXXI. 
 C HEIST APPEARING. 
 
 1. 
 
 u Lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone." 
 
 Thou that art in the rocky clefts, my Dove ; 
 
 Thou that in secret of the stairs dost dwell, 
 
 And hidest Thee within Thy stony cell, — 
 Oh, let me see Thy countenance of love ; 
 Oh, let me hear Thy voice ; as from above 
 
 The day breaks and the shadows flee away. 
 
 Winter is past and gone ; the young harts stray 
 Upon the hills ; the turtle in the grove 
 
 Anticipates the dawn, heard though unseen 
 
 'Mid the dark pine-tree tops and tender green 
 Of vine and fig-tree ; and the lilies bright 
 
 Put forth their flowrets from the leafy screen. 
 And who is she looks forth, as morning light, 
 Expecting ? Eise, my soul, to meet this sight ! 
 
184 CHRIST APPEARING. 
 
 M I love them that love Me : and those that seek Me early 
 shall find Me." 
 
 I hear His voice : " Before the dawning day, 
 
 Lo, at thy door before the morning light 
 I knock ; arise, My love," I hear Him say, 
 " Arise, my love, my fair one, come away : 
 
 My locks are dripping with the dews of night, 
 My head is filled with dew. Come to My sight, 
 Open the door, together take our flight, 
 And. in our own celestial gardens stray : 
 
 The fountains are unsealed, the south-winds blow, 
 And from their beds the breathing spices flow. 
 Come, let us see if tender grapes appear 
 Upon our vine, if summer yet be near. 
 
 Rise up and haste ; for all the rest are gone : 
 My love, My undefiled is but one." 
 
 " "With my soul have I desired Thee in the night ; yea, with 
 my spirit within me will I seek Thee early." 
 
 My bowels while He spake were in me moved ; 
 
 To my Beloved I opened, and the dawn 
 
 Was there; but my Light had Himself withdrawn. 
 I sought, but could not find Him. My Beloved, 
 I call Thee, but Thou answerest not. I roved, 
 
 And in the twilight sought, but He was gone. 
 
 O Thou so early found, but lost too soon, 
 Where shall I seek Thy countenance unreproved ? 
 
 My heart is faint within me. Is it so, 
 That I must ever seek Thee, and complain ; 
 
 Still hear Thy voice, and ever wandering go 
 After the sound, yet ask for Thee in vain ; 
 
 Feeling Thee near, and strive Thy feet to hold, 
 
 And, finding nothing, grasp Thy mantle's fold ? 
 
CHRIST APPEARING. 185 
 
 4. 
 
 " That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel 
 after Him, and find Him, though He be not far from every one 
 of us." 
 
 Soft was His Presence as the gentle snow, 
 
 That falls from Heaven and lies upon the ground, 
 Then vanishes, that not a trace is found 
 Where it had been ; or as the witness bow, 
 Fearful though bright, that hastening seems to go 
 As gently as it came. Such dead profound, 
 Such light and gloom, such tears and gleams 
 abound 
 Upon its stay, that ere we seemed to know 
 And calcinate our promise, it was fled. 
 Yet oft returns His Presence from the dead, 
 We know not how, but 'mid this earthly storm 
 He promised, and He hastens to perform, 
 In sacramental sign, by which we live, 
 The covenanted promise to forgive. 
 
 " What is commanded thee, think thereupon with reverence ; 
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 Where doth the Mother veil her weeping eyes ? 
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 His Presence, on her grief in silence steal ? 
 
 Or cheer her soul in some celestial guise ? 
 
 On such, the hidden secret of the skies, — 
 Whereon the All- Wise Spirit sets the seal 
 Of silence, from our searches to conceal, 
 
 With the thick veil of thrice six centuries, — 
 Let not man's curious judgment there intrude, 
 Xor in that awe-encompass' d solitude 
 
 Set foot ; lest error should herself entwine 
 
 To blend with human fiction truth divine ; 
 
 And blindness strike our thoughts, too bold of 
 
 heart, 
 Which dare to look where Ckrist doth stand 
 apart. 
 
186 CHRIST APPEARING. 
 
 6. 
 
 " Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed." 
 
 And Faith, with marvel-working influence, 
 Vouchsafes a blessedness beyond the sight, 
 "Which lies within, far deeper than the light 
 
 That visits our gross eyes ; with other sense 
 
 Than that which is by fleshly instruments 
 Adoring sees, and feels, and knows delight : 
 Sure man's high -wrought imaginings may blight 
 
 The majesty retired and reverence 
 
 Due to immortal Truth. We know full well 
 
 What He reveals is as a sea replete 
 
 With knowledge and with wisdom ; and if meet 
 That when He speaks we should in trembling 
 dwell 
 
 On all that issues from His holy seat, 
 His silence too is most adorable. 
 
Cfjrtet appears; for forty tlapd. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who didst show Thyself 
 alive unto Thine Apostles after Thy Passion for 
 forty days, often appearing unto them, and speak- 
 ing of the things pertaining to the kingdom of 
 God ; grant unto us first of all to seek Thy king- 
 dom, and Thy righteousness, and all other things 
 shall be added unto us. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 " EJjat foe mag continue fa ti)at Ijoto fellofosljtp." 
 
XXXII. 
 THE FOETY DAYS. 
 
 4> In that day shall the Lord of Hosts be for a crown of 
 glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of His 
 people." 
 
 O G-LOKiors, wonderful, and blessed days, 
 
 When Christ full oft at each accustomed scene 
 "Walked in the Resurrection, — oft unseen, 
 
 And oft appearing to the adoring gaze ; 
 
 At morn or eve, on travellers' pensive ways, 
 By rocky cove, or shore, or mount serene, 
 Or at the social board, would intervene, 
 
 In veil of flesh hiding His Godhead's blaze ; 
 
 Unknown, yet well known ; in such marvellous 
 change, 
 
 Like the impalpable air, in stillness brought 
 
 Through close-barred doors, silent, swift, calm as 
 thought, 
 Yet palpable : in vast and boundless range, 
 
 Setting the laws of matter all at nought, 
 And vet the same in transmutation strange. 
 
190 THE FORTY DATS. 
 
 " It doth not yet appear what we shall be ; but we know 
 that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him." 
 
 Great earnest of the time when, cleansed from sin, 
 The Saints shall rise with bodies glorified, 
 Like half-transparent veils to flesh allied, 
 
 Yet changed; when those affections which have 
 been 
 
 Growing into the soul, and laid therein 
 By fiery trials, shall no longer hide, 
 But on the outward features shall abide, 
 
 Like fervid emanations from within, 
 
 Which mould the breathing form and character, 
 And impress of the soul. O vision fair, 
 
 That meets not human eye or human thought, 
 
 But sets our dull imaginings at nought, 
 
 "When these our earthly frames, divinely wrought 
 And purified, with Christ Himself appear ! 
 
 3. 
 
 " When I awake up after Thy likeness, I shall be satisfied 
 with it." 
 
 When our insensate limbs lie on the bed 
 Of sleep, on the live spirit visions break, 
 Which then without the body is awake. 
 
 And if it be, as holy men have said, 
 
 That sleep is but an image of the dead, — 
 What time the soul the lifeless body leaves, 
 And to new being lives, and joys, and grieves, — 
 
 Then things which here we most have cherished 
 May blend with visions of that after- sight, 
 As here in dreams of woe or keen delight ; 
 But when our souls and bodies shall unite, 
 
 Then it may be as when we ope our eyes 
 
 At waking, and with sense regained arise 
 
 To woe or joy's substantial verities. 
 
THE FORTY DAYS. 191 
 
 4. 
 
 " They shall walk with Me in white." 
 
 I see a company bright with new light, 
 That moving form a silver galaxy, 
 'iNXid trees of Paradise that hang thereby ; 
 
 Where waters, clear as flowing chrysolite, 
 
 From an o'erhanging cave flow down the height ; 
 O'er each, with a distinctness all his own, 
 A starry effluence hath formed a crown ; 
 
 And by the side of each there comes to sight 
 A winged angel, with endearing face, 
 Or guidance leading on, or calm embrace ; 
 
 And some before the rest, within a stream 
 Of silver rays, which from the portal pours, 
 Rising, approach the everlasting doors, 
 
 Borne from their feet, and whitening in the beam. 
 
 5. 
 
 11 Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men." 
 
 And over all there lay a bright serene, 
 
 A calm no man can speak, whose dread repose 
 Lifted it up above the joys and woes 
 
 Of this our turbulent unquiet scene, 
 
 And set apart : thus onward are they seen 
 Advancing : if it motion could be called 
 That was so like repose, whose peace appalled 
 
 The looker-on of earth, and rose between 
 
 This world and Heaven : while here a glorious 
 group, 
 
 Turned Heaven-ward in its still slow measured 
 dance, 
 
 Did Eastward through the lustrous trees advance : 
 While others from behind, in lengthened troop, 
 Looked up to where an angel seemed to stoop, 
 
 With trumpet-voice, and held their sense in trance. 
 
192 THE FOETT DAYS. 
 
 " The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of 
 God." 
 
 But if no hand or thought can rightly paint 
 That scene so terrible and yet so fair, 
 Much less can mortal thought, — by grovelling 
 care, 
 
 Or low pursuit, or the defiling taint 
 
 Of foul imaginings void of restraint, 
 
 Made sensual, — from things of earth, sea, air, 
 Learn aught of those bright things beyond com- 
 pare. 
 
 Yea, saintly souls themselves are frail and faint 
 Aught to conceive of that high blessedness : 
 
 They gain no glimpse, or if they should attain, 
 Yet find no words that vision to express ; 
 
 Or if they language find to speak, no less 
 Their burning words to others speak in vain, 
 Who hear but cannot understand the strain. 
 
Christ ascents to Seaben. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who while Thy disciples 
 
 BEHELD WAST TAKEN UP INTO HEAVEN, THAT THOU 
 MIGHTEST RETURN TO HlM THAT HAD SENT THEE ; 
 GRANT THAT MY HEART MAY PASS FROM ME, AND DE- 
 PART after Thee. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 "Glotv be to <Sofc on ftt 
 
XXXIII. 
 THE ASCEXSIOX. 
 
 1. 
 
 " Who maketh the clouds His chariot, and walketh upon the 
 wings of the wind.'' 
 
 He hath gone up on high, the Heavens appear 
 To stoop for Him, and earth itself to rise 
 To send Him thither ; henceforth earth and skies 
 
 Seem as if reconciled to draw more near, 
 
 While for His Saints He is preparing there 
 A place, though hidden from our mortal eyes ; 
 And in those hearts which unto Him arise 
 
 By His descending gracious Comforter, 
 
 Preparing for Himself a place below, 
 
 From mortal eyes though hidden, — with new laws 
 Thus lifted up the souls of men He draws 
 After Him, where above He pleads their cause, — 
 
 Draws after Him, as sparks that upward go, 
 
 And rise unto the sun from whence tliev now. 
 02 
 
196 THE ASCENSION. 
 
 " If thou see Me when I am taken from thee, it shall be 
 so unto thee : but if not, it shall not be so." 
 
 As from an exile's sad and ruined coast, 
 
 They who would send one to prepare a home 
 In happier climes, where they themselves would 
 come, 
 
 And watch him in departing ; yet, when lost, 
 
 Miss his protecting hand, and feel then most 
 Bereaved ; so we, where clouds the skies illume, 
 Watch Him ascend, and feel an evening gloom 
 
 Steal o'er us on our way by shadows cross' d. 
 But if our hearts we wean from things of sense, 
 And cleanse our eyes by faith and abstinence 
 To see Him still in His departing hence, 
 
 The mantle of His peace shall on us rest ; 
 
 His Spirit's double portion fill our breast ; 
 
 And we e'en by His absence be more blest. 
 
 3. 
 
 " Yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet 
 now henceforth know we Him no more.'* 
 
 'Tis said, in love there is this mystery, 
 That we cannot recall the absent glance, 
 JSTor very self of a dear countenance, 
 "When far away ; of this the cause may be 
 That those we love are one with us, and we 
 Cannot behold ourselves. "When out of sight 
 Thus love runs forth to what is infinite ; 
 And so the more we love, the less we see : 
 
 For it is given to feed on the Divine, 
 When we the human lose ; and the Unseen 
 Comes to be with us more, the more we wean 
 
 Our thoughts from what is sensible. Be mine 
 The better part to see not, yet believe : 
 Although the more I love, the more I grieve. 
 
THE ASCENSION. 197 
 
 " For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, aud the 
 earthly tabernacle weigheth down the mind." 
 
 The human soul is yearning after love, 
 And finding not still feels itself alone, 
 Turning from side to side with ceaseless moan ; 
 Or if she find what may affection move, 
 The object of her love turns to reprove, 
 By misplaced trust, or stern disunion, 
 Or disappointment ; or if raised to One, 
 Who is the Everlasting rest above 
 
 Of Spirits divine, though for a while unseen ; 
 The more her inward poverty she knows, 
 And finds unrest in seeking for repose : 
 
 ^Nor can sustain her to those heights serene 
 Against the attractions of our lower birth, 
 Whose gravitation draws her back to earth. 
 
 " Re that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how 
 can he love God Whom he hath not seen ?" 
 
 But since our GrOD Incarnate is on high, 
 And in mysterious channels from the skies 
 
 Blends with our fallen nature ; and brought nigh 
 Flows into all our human sympathies, 
 
 The everlasting Life of those that die ; 
 
 Xo longer may our love thus buried lie 
 
 In low-born cares, with not a thought to rise, 
 And walk amid those pure societies ; 
 
 Till life itself becomes the sepulchre 
 Of the undying soul ; itself the prey 
 Of creeping things, or things far worse than 
 they ; 
 
 Imbedded in unworthy hope and fear, 
 Ere in the tomb, in its appointed day, 
 
 Its mantle of corruption disappear. 
 
198 THE ASCENSION. 
 
 6. 
 
 " Whom having not seen, ye love ; in Whom, though now 
 ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice/' 
 
 For now our very flesh He hath put on. 
 
 And in the intricate spirit thus hath wound 
 "With involutions many and profound, 
 
 From state of our corruption hath begun 
 
 To hallow the affections He hath won, 
 
 And feelings human and Divine hath bound 
 To His own service ; with them to surround 
 
 His place of rest and Sabbath. As the sun 
 Drowns in itself all lesser fires to feed 
 
 Its own, — itself afar yet wondrous near : 
 
 So may He with regenerating fear 
 
 A_s from our being's centre still proceed 
 To every inmost feeling, word, and deed, — 
 
 To every outward sense, and eye, and ear. 
 
Cfje TJeScnU of tty Slob Spirit. 
 
 THE PRAYER. 
 
 O Lord Jesu Christ, Who, ox the day of Pente- 
 cost, DIDST SEND DOWN THE HOLY SPIRIT UPON THINE 
 
 Apostles ; pour, we beseech Thee, the same Spirit 
 into our minds, that being formed by hls wisdom, 
 we may be guided by" hls providence. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 Cfje Benctttction. 
 
XXXIV. 
 THE DESCENT OE THE HOLY SPIEIT. 
 
 1. 
 
 "Their eyes saw the Majesty of His glory, and their ears 
 heard His glorious voice.' ' 
 
 "Let there be Light!" God said: and at the 
 sound, 
 With varied order, beautiful and young, 
 Erom the dead formless void Creation sprung, 
 And sea and land with their alternate bound, 
 And shining worlds that range the blue profound, 
 With hills and woods, and beasts the hills among, 
 And painted birds that in the forest sung, 
 And flowers of scent, and hue that deck'd the ground, 
 And seas and streams where roam'd the finny herd. 
 But how much more when that creative Word, 
 The Gift L T nspeakable on man conferr'd, 
 Was seen in flaming tongues that came to sight, 
 And heard in rushing winds of viewless might, 
 Saying to man's dark soul, " Let there be Light !" 
 
202 THE DESCENT OF THE HOLT SPIEIT. 
 
 11 The vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it 
 shall speak and not lie : though it tarry, wait for it ; because 
 it will surely come, it will not tarry." 
 
 " Let there be Light !" Dead matter heard of old, 
 When the foundations of the world were laid, 
 And e'en in hearing instantly obeyed. 
 
 But twice nine hundred years have onward rolTd, 
 
 Since with His gifts and graces manifold 
 
 The Spirit hath gone forth, with light arrayed, 
 And the Almighty fiat hath been said ; 
 
 Then why is the fulfilment yet untold ? 
 There was of days a numbering and delay 
 
 When rose this visible scene of earth and sky, 
 
 Which hastes so fast to fade away and die : 
 To the All-wise it needs a longer day, 
 From the soul's endless ruin and decay, 
 
 To form a world for immortality. 
 
 " For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday : 
 seeing that is past as a watch in the night." 
 
 It needs a longer time to reinstate : — 
 The world arose in six days at His word, 
 And clothed itself in beauty as it heard ; 
 But ere the mighty water-floods abate, 
 Which once have issued from the penal gate, 
 When Ocean for its cleansing hath been stirr'd, 
 By days, and weeks, and months must be deferred. 
 It needs a once-lost world to renovate 
 
 Much time, much suffering, many words, much 
 
 price, 
 Of God Himself the costly Sacrifice, 
 With a long system of atoning pains 
 In shadows or in substance, which remains 
 From the beginning to the end of time, 
 When all shall fill One Mighty Truth sublime. 
 
THE DESCENT OE THE HOLY SPIRIT. 203 
 
 4. 
 
 "As a drop of water unto the sea, and a gravel-stone in 
 comparison of the sand ; so are a thousand years to the days 
 of eternity." 
 
 But if the tilings beheld so glorious seem, 
 
 And long the time to be, and which hath been ; 
 
 But yet how short the time, how poor the scene 
 Compared with that which issues from tins dream, 
 Of which the sun is but a spark or beam ? 
 
 And it may be, when death shall intervene, 
 
 ALL time hath comprehended then is seen 
 As instantaneous as a lightning gleam ; 
 
 Or as when God first spake, and there was light. 
 E'en now more old we grow, or more the soul 
 Is in her view enlarged, or to the goal 
 
 Draws near, more brief appear the things of 
 sight : 
 How short shall then appear this little whole, 
 
 When we behold it from the shore aright ? 
 
 11 I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could 
 number.' ' 
 
 How populous, 'tis said, is solitude ! 
 
 Men hear it, and receive the truth sublime, 
 
 Yet mark not why. If rightly understood, 
 
 It is the company of the wise and good : 
 In solitude we pass from present time, 
 Above the living crowd we needs must climb, 
 
 And make the past and future our abode. 
 
 Thus when in solitary thoughts we brood 
 Upon the City which descends from high, 
 
 Before and after are unnumber'd eyes, 
 
 Such as are found in the eternal skies, 
 
 More than the thickest earthly companies : 
 And we may blend in the society 
 Of Saints, which on the breast of Jesus lie. 
 
204 THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIEIT. 
 
 6. 
 
 ' ' Before man is life and death ; and whether him liketh shall 
 be given him." 
 
 When at the "Word of power creation rose, 
 The elements to their appointed place 
 All hastened, each to hold their separate space ; 
 
 Earth, Sea, and Air, and Light and Darkness chose 
 
 Each their own realms, and barriers interpose, 
 Distinct in their gradations ; each his race 
 To run, and to fulfil his day of grace. 
 
 And we, too, who have heard His voice, must close. 
 And take our stations, or we are undone. 
 
 That Word of power hath gone forth to all lands, 
 
 With gifts, and benedictions, and commands ; 
 And gather' d in unto the Holy One, 
 
 Sprinkled with blood, each Saintly Spirit stands, 
 Before the Lamb that sitteth on the throne. 
 
 THE END. 
 
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