The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4 - The Higher Life by Various
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Christ: the earnest, wise-faced Boy, and the eager or doubtful
but thoughtful Scribes and Doctors of the Law, are graphically depicted._ ISAAC WATTS _From a contemporary engraving_. THE HOLY NIGHT "It was the winter wild While the heaven-born Child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies." _From photogravure after a painting by Martin Feuerstein._ CHARLES WESLEY _From a contemporary engraving_. THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD "Knocking, knocking, ever knocking? Who is there? 'Tis a pilgrim, strange and kingly, Never such was seen before." _From photo-carbon print after the painting by Holman Hunt_. SIR GALAHAD "My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure." _From photogravure after the painting by George Frederick Watts_. |
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