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W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895.

On the Water of Our Lord’s Baptisme

Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–1649)

EACH blest drop on each blest limme

Is wash’t itselfe in washing Him:

’Tis a gemme while it stayes here;

While it falls hence ’tis a teare.