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With curious ears. “A very lovely song !”—“And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.”-EZEK. xxxiii. 32.

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This Sonnet was written after a first view of Mr. Holman Hunt's painting, “The Shadow of Death.” For those readers who have not yet seen this picture it may be necessary to state that the scene represented is the workshop in Nazareth at sunset. The Saviour is represented with outstretched arms as He ceases wearily from the toil of the day, and the shadow thrown from His figure falls behind Him in the sign of a cross. Underneath the picture is inscribed the passage quoted from the Epistle for the Sixth Sunday in Lent.

So-for the Man whose Godhead is no spoil—“Thought it not robbery to be equal with God” (ούχ άρπαγμών ηγήσατο το είναι ίσα θεω) is literally “Did not deem His own equality with God to be a spoil,” that is, not a wrongful claim, but an attribute which was His by right.

PAGE 67. For having loosed the birth-pangs of our doom—“Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death,” Acts ii. 24 (avoas tús údivas TOū Bavátov), is more literally and significantly “having loosed the birthpangs of death."

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So fared, in sin and woe, our fallen race-This deeper application of the Parable is one common to most of the commentaries, whether of the Fathers or of the Reformers. The traveller personifies Human Nature in Adam: Jerusalem is the City and Home of Peace: the way down to Jericho, the accursed city (Joshua vi. 26), is the facilis descensus of sin: the robbers represent him who was a robber and murderer from the beginning (St. John viii. 44): the Priest and Levite personify the Sacrifices and the Law, unable in themselves to heal (Gal. iii. 2, and Hcb. ix. 9): the Good Samaritan is the Saviour, the Wine representing the Blood of His Passion, and the Oil the Unction of His Spirit, and the Inn figuring the Church to which the care of the flock of God is committed until the Chief Shepherd shall appear (Acts xx. 28, and 1 St. Peter v. 2, 4).

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His servant, soldier, votary, and defied-St. Paul by the origuara here makes allusion to three ancient usages : (1) of slaves, branded with the names of their masters; (2) of soldiers, who wore the marks of their general; (3) of votaries of deities, whose emblems they bear on their bodies.-Wordsworth.

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The gift of suffering for the Lord we love-St. Paul at this time was at the close of his first imprisonment at Rome, waiting the Emperor's verdict. The nature of the grace" of which he speaks in verse 7 is explained by verse 29.

Across the world the ghostly struggle lies
Amid the foolish or the savage mirth
At Bethany with His beloved alone
A year ago these twain had heard the cry
Bright is the world's meridian: overhead
Countless, in ceaseless war, the ghostly foe
Deliver from blood-guiltiness-0 Thou
Draw me, my Saviour, from the carnal throng...
Emmanuel! O music of a Name
Fair is the Garden of the Lord : and fair
Fasting and prayer : then conflict : then repose
“Follow," the Voice said from the wilderness ...
From Life's great City and His Father's face
Gold, for the King whose grace hath set me free
Grey dawn of the stern time of fast and prayer
Hast thou Hope which is the secret Stream
He comes to give; He comes to take away
Henceforth let no man trouble me: I bear
He shall see of the travail of His soul
His word goes through the world. Great is the throng
I have heard the music flowing through the years
“I lie in pain," a sufferer said, and sighed
In the durk morning came the choric throng
Joy weds with Peace to-day. This morning's power...
Long have we fared on the appointed ways
Lo! the beginning of the end. At morn
Love is the light of every night and day
Make pure thy heart: it is the Father's throne

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Men walk the world in dulness or affright
Mid all that draws or that distracts I wait
Morning! the utter gloom did wane to grey
My covenant lamp was lit with heavenly fire
No cheering rays His path to death illume
Now is there choral song in heaven once more
Oh to endure! to tread the pilgrim ways
O tongue of heaven, whose silence eloquent
Over a Martyr's head the sword of doom
Salvation and Destruction : Heaven and Hell
See Love consummate now what Love began
Since round His sleeping brow no aureole
Sing thou the Lord's song, holy hymn and psalm
The dull day lowers, the winds are harsh and shrill...
The feast is ready and the Lord is there
The feet of Israel pressed the living sod...
The invisible regions of unfathomed space
The light of Jesus lies o'er all the way ...
The martyrs of the world are strong and true...
The Name was uttered, and the deed was done
The promised Spouse looks for the splendid morn
There is a music flowing through the years
There is a valley 'neath th' imperial height
The setting of a blood-red sun in calm
The still trees stir, the old waste places sing
The tears of Jesus! once again they flow
The time draws on: the dread sweet day is near
This night was asked and answered in the gloom
This is the hour of darkness and of light
Thou art the keeper of thy Master's Name
Thou shalt subdue the pride of life by love
Together, well: in prayer together, well...
“Up to Jerusalem.” Their way they wend
“Weep not.” The word ere long o'erleapt the hills...
“ What shall the end be?” 'Mid the tempests' roar
Who cometh Zionward ? The Seraphim
Wistful is every servant, who hath borne
Within God's Acre, on a still Spring day
Wouldst thou endure? Seven nations thy foes
Yea; weak their faith because their eyes were dim

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