Social Commentaries
On our Saviours Crosse
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Our Saviours Crosse, beguilt with guiltlesse blood,
Was fram'd (as some write) of foure kinds of wood,
Palme, Cedar, Cypresse, Olive; which might show
That blessings thence to the foure parts should flow
Of the vast world, and from the foure windes should
Christs flocke be fetcht to his thrice-blessed Fold.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “On our Saviours Crosse.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/313/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “On our Saviours Crosse.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/313/.
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