<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115184" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet II</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh thou who once on earth, beneath the weight<br> Of our mortality didst live and move,<br> The incarnation of profoundest love;<br> Who on the Cross that love didst consummate;<br> Whose deep and ample fullness could embrace<br> The poorest, meanest of our fallen race:<br> How shall we e'er that boundless debt repay?<br> By long loud prayers in gorgeous temples said?<br> By rich oblations on thine altars laid?<br> Ah, no! not thus thou didst appoint the way:<br> When thou wast bowed our human woe beneath,<br> Then as a legacy thou didst bequeath<br> Earth's sorrowing children to our ministry --<br> And as we do to them, we do to thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Lynch+Botta">Anne Lynch Botta</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115184" data-title="Sonnet II de Anne Lynch Botta" data-description="Oh thou who once on earth, beneath the weight/ Of our mortality didst live and move,/ The incarnation of profoundest love;/ Who on the Cross that love didst consummate;/ Whose deep and ample fullness could embrace/ The poorest, meanest of our ..."></div> </div> </div>

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