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W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895.

Except I shall put my Finger

Richard Crashaw (G.) (c. 1613–1649)

JOHN XX. 25.

THY impious finger, would, it then, reborrow

The nails, the spear, each circumstance of sorrow?

That on a living Christ thou mayst rely,

Cruel, would’st thou thy Christ recrucify?