This poem is taken from PN Review 171, Volume 33 Number 1, September - October 2006.
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Christs bloody sweate
Fatt soyle, | full springe, | sweete olive, | grape of blisse |
That yeldes, | that streames, | that powres, | that dost distil |
Untild, | undrawne, | unstampde, | untouchd of presse |
Deare fruit, | cleare brooks, | fayre oyle, | sweete wine at will |
Thus Christ unforc’d preventes in shedding bloode
The whippes the thornes the nailes the speare and roode.
He Pelicans he Phenix fate doth prove
Whome flames consume whom streames enforce to die
How burneth bloud howe bleedeth burning love
Can one in flame and streame both bathe and frye
How coulde he joyne a Phenix fyerye paynes
In faynting pelicans still bleeding vaynes
Elias once to prove gods soveraigne powre
By praire procur’d a fier of wondrous force
That blood and wood and water did devoure
Yea stones and dust beyonde all natures course
Such fire is love that fedd with gory bloode
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