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Richard Crashaw

Christ Crucified

THY restless feet now cannot go
    For us and our eternal good,
As they were ever wont. What though
    They swim, alas! in their own flood?

Thy hands to give Thou canst not lift,
    Yet will Thy hand still giving be;
It gives, but O, itself's the gift!
    It gives tho' bound, tho' bound 'tis free!

About the poet

Richard Crashaw
c.1612-1649

 
By the same poet
Wishes to His Supposed Mistress
The Weeper
A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa
Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphical Saint Teresa
Verses from the Shepherds' Hymn
An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife, who died and were buried together
 
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