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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421228" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Circumcision Of Christ</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The year begins with Thee,<br> And Thou beginn'st with woe,<br>To let the world of sinners see<br> That blood for sin must flow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Thine infant cries, O Lord,<br> Thy tears upon the breast,<br>Are not enough--the legal sword<br> Must do its stern behest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Like sacrificial wine<br> Poured on a victim's head<br>Are those few precious drops of Thine,<br> Now first to offering led.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> They are the pledge and seal<br> Of Christ's unswerving faith<br>Given to His Sire, our souls to heal,<br> Although it cost His death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> They to His Church of old,<br> To each true Jewish heart,<br>In Gospel graces manifold<br> Communion blest impart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Now of Thy love we deem<br> As of an ocean vast,<br>Mounting in tides against the stream<br> Of ages gone and past.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Both theirs and ours Thou art,<br> As we and they are Thine;<br>Kings, Prophets, Patriarchs--all have part<br> Along the sacred line.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> By blood and water too<br> God's mark is set on Thee,<br>That in Thee every faithful view<br> Both covenants might see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> O bond of union, dear<br> And strong as is Thy grace!<br>Saints, parted by a thousand year,<br> May thus in heart embrace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Is there a mourner true,<br> Who fallen on faithless days,<br>Sighs for the heart-consoling view<br> Of those Heaven deigned to praise?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> In spirit may'st thou meet<br> With faithful Abraham here,<br>Whom soon in Eden thou shalt greet<br> A nursing Father dear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Would'st thou a poet be?<br> And would thy dull heart fain<br>Borrow of Israel's minstrelsy<br> One high enraptured strain?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Come here thy soul to tune,<br> Here set thy feeble chant,<br>Here, if at all beneath the moon,<br> Is holy David's haunt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Art thou a child of tears,<br> Cradled in care and woe?<br>And seems it hard, thy vernal years<br> Few vernal joys can show?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And fall the sounds of mirth<br> Sad on thy lonely heart,<br>From all the hopes and charms of earth<br> Untimely called to part?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Look here, and hold thy peace:<br> The Giver of all good<br>E'en from the womb takes no release<br> From suffering, tears, and blood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> If thou would'st reap in love,<br> First sow in holy fear:<br>So life a winter's morn may prove<br> To a bright endless year.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Keble">John Keble</a><div class=q>
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 And Thou beginn'st with woe,
To let the world of sinners see
 That blood for sin must flow.

 Thine infant cries, O Lord,
 Thy tears upon the breast,
Are not enough--the legal sword
 Must do its stern behest.

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