Classic Poem

As on the earth in flesh thou didst appear
Now show thyself great God to this bold age;
Where, armed against thy truth, men dare to wage
Their war against thy Godhead without fear.

Thou that didst burst through stone a passage clear
To bear thy earthly body from its cage,
Sunder this other tomb, and disengage
Thyself a sun from out this crystal sphere.

Lighten the earth as thou dost light the skies.
Warming my heart strike blindness from my eyes
No longer twain, be heat and light one whole.

Forgive me, Lord, my brain in transport reels.
Enough that Faith exhibits to my soul
What to my body's eyes a crumb conceals.