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W. Garrett Horder, comp.  The Poets’ Bible: New Testament.  1895.
 
To Pontius washing His Hands
Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–1649)
 
MATT. XXVII. 24.

THY hands are washt; but O, the water’s spilt
That labour’d to have washt thy guilt:
The flood, if any can, that can suffice;
Must have its fountain in thine eyes.
 
 
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