If I were lost in misery What was it to Thy heaven and thee? What was it to Thy precious blood If my foul heart called for a flood? What if my faithl… - Richard Crashaw

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If I were lost in misery
What was it to Thy heaven and thee?
What was it to Thy precious blood
If my foul heart called for a flood?
What if my faithless soul and I
Would needs fall in
With guilt and sin,
What did the lamb that He should die?
What did the lamb that He should need,
When the wolf sins, Himself to bleed?

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About Richard Crashaw

Richard Crashaw (c. 1613 – 21 August 1649) English poet, styled "the divine," was part of the Seventeenth-century Metaphysical School of poets.

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