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His Saviour's Words Going To The Cross.

By Robert Herrick

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Have, have ye no regard, all ye     Who pass this way, to pity Me,     Who am a man of misery!     A man both bruis'd, and broke, and one     Who suffers not here for Mine own,     But for My friends' transgression!     Ah! Sion's daughters, do not fear     The cross, the cords, the nails, the spear,     The myrrh, the gall, the vinegar;     For Christ, your loving Saviour, hath     Drunk up the wine of God's fierce wrath;     Only there's left a little froth,     Less for to taste than for to show     What bitter cups had been your due,     Had He not drank them up for you.

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Robert Herrick

About Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was an English Cavalier poet whose "Hesperides" (1648) contains over 1,200 poems. His carpe diem verse "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" ("Gather ye rosebuds while ye may") and lyric poems celebrate love, beauty, and the passing of time.

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