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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. V. Browning to Rupert Brooke

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907)

Christ’s Friends

BEFORE Thine Altar on my bended knees

When I remember those Thy friends that lie

Helpless and hopeless, sunk in misery,

O Christ, I love Thee, but I love not these.

Without them I may never hope to please

That friend of theirs who had no word to say

When from his side the rich man turned away.

O Christ, Thou lov’st not me. Thou lovest these.