"All thy old woes shall now smile on thee, and thy pains sit bright on thee. All thy sorrows here shall shine and thy sufferings be divine; Tears shall take comfort and turn to gems and wrongs repent to diadems Even thy deaths shall live and new dress the soul that once they slew."

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Source : Richard Crashaw (1858). “The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto”, p.72

Richard Crashaw

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