Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By TheodoreParker

267 Jesus

JESUS, there is no dearer name than thine

Which Time has blazoned on his mighty scroll;

No wreaths nor garlands ever did entwine

So fair a temple of so vast a soul.

There every virtue set his triumph-seal;

Wisdom, conjoined with strength and radiant grace,

In a sweet copy Heaven to reveal,

And stamp perfection on a mortal face.

Once on the earth wert thou, before men’s eyes,

That did not half thy beauteous brightness see;

E’en as the emmet does not read the skies,

Nor our weak orbs look through immensity.