Social Commentaries
Comfort in the Crosse
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
When Helena, most deare to Constantine,
(A Lady pregnant with affects divine)
Had happ'ly learned that Christs Crosse did lye
At the low confines of Mount Calvary,
Causing the rubbidge, under which it lay
By Iewes ill-buried, to be cast away,
The broke Earth trembled (as the Story showes)
And from her ruptures dainty odours throwes
Into the Aire: For though the Crosse imprint
Feare in our hearts, yet is there comfort in't,
And such a sweetnesse as was never found
In Tempe's Groves, nor Edens flowery ground.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Comfort in the Crosse.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/418/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Comfort in the Crosse.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/418/.
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