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Christina Georgina Rossetti - The Love Of Christ Which Passeth KowledgeChristina Georgina Rossetti - The Love Of Christ Which Passeth Kowledge
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I bore with thee long weary days and nights,  Through many pangs of heart, through many tears; I bore with thee, thy hardness, coldness, slights,    For three and thirty years. Who else had dared for thee what I have dared?  I plunged the depth most deep from bliss above; I not My flesh, I not My spirit spared:    Give thou Me love for love. For thee I thirsted in the daily drouth,  For thee I trembled in the nightly frost: Much sweeter thou than honey to My mouth:    Why wilt thou still be lost? I bore thee on My shoulders and rejoiced:  Men only marked upon My shoulders borne The branding cross; and shouted hungry-voiced,    Or wagged their heads in scorn. Thee did nails grave upon My hands, thy name  Did thorns for frontlets stamp between Mine eyes: I, Holy One, put on thy guilt and shame;    I, God, Priest, Sacrifice. A thief upon My right hand and My left;  Six hours alone, athirst, in misery: At length in death one smote My heart and cleft    A hiding-place for thee. Nailed to the racking cross, than bed of down  More dear, whereon to stretch Myself and sleep: So did I win a kingdom,—share my crown;    A harvest,—come and reap.
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