| W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895. | | | | Were Not the Sinful Mary’s Tears | | Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
| | | WERE not the sinful Mary’s tears | |
| An offering worthy Heaven, | |
| When o’er the faults of former years | |
| She wept—and was forgiven? | |
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| When bringing every balmy sweet | 5 |
| Her day of luxury stored, | |
| She o’er her Saviour’s hallowed feet | |
| The precious perfume pour’d; | |
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| And wiped them with that golden hair | |
| Where once the diamonds shone: | 10 |
| Though now those gems of grief were there | |
| Which shine for God alone. | |
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| Were not those sweets, though humbly shed— | |
| That hair—those weeping eyes— | |
| And the sunk heart that inly bled— | 15 |
| Heaven’s noblest sacrifice? | |
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| Thou that hast slept in error’s sleep, | |
| Oh, wouldst thou wake in heaven, | |
| Like Mary kneel, like Mary weep, | |
| ‘Love much,’ and be forgiven? | 20 | | | |
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