D. G. Rossetti (The Blessed Damozel).
When as in silk my Julia goes,
Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows
The liquefaction of her clothes!
Robert Herrick (Upon Julia’s Clothes),
The six quotations above are from a series of word-pictures ([see p. 85]).
Whatever else may or may not work on through eternity, we are bound to believe that the love, which moved the Father to redeem the world at such infinite cost, must work on, while there is one pang in the universe, born of sin, which can touch the Divine pity, or one wretched prodigal in rags and hunger far from the home and the heart of God.
Rev. Baldwin Brown.