<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409738" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Legend Of The Crossbill. (From The German Of Julius Mosen)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the cross the dying Saviour <br>Heavenward lifts his eyelids calm, <br>Feels, but scarcely feels, a trembling <br>In his pierced and bleeding palm. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And by all the world forsaken, <br>Sees he how with zealous care <br>At the ruthless nail of iron <br>A little bird is striving there. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stained with blood and never tiring, <br>With its beak it doth not cease, <br>From the cross 't would free the Saviour, <br>Its Creator's Son release. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the Saviour speaks in mildness: <br>'Blest be thou of all the good! <br>Bear, as token of this moment, <br>Marks of blood and holy rood!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And that bird is called the crossbill; <br>Covered all with blood so clear, <br>In the groves of pine it singeth <br>Songs, like legends, strange to hear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a><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=409738" data-title="The Legend Of The Crossbill. (From The German Of Julius Mosen) de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" data-description="On the cross the dying Saviour Heavenward lifts his eyelids calm, Feels, but scarcely feels, a trembling In his pierced and bleeding palm. And by all the world forsaken, Sees he how with zealous care At the ruthless nail of iron A little b..."></div> </div> </div>

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