Richard Crashaw


DIVINE EPIGRAMS.

On the Water of our Lord's Baptism.
EACH blest drop on each blest limb,
    Is wash't itself, in washing Him :
'Tis a gem while it stays here ;
    While it falls hence 'tis a tear.




Source:
The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw. William B. Turnbull, Ed.
London: John Russell Smith, 1858.  16.



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