“Get thee behind me. Lord,
Who hast redeemed and not abhorred
My soul, oh! keep it by thy Word.”
And what a cry is this? Who has not felt it in his heart? It is entitled “Good Friday”:
“Am I a stone and not a sheep,
That I can stand, O Christ! beneath Thy Cross,
To number drop by drop Thy Blood’s slow loss,
And yet not weep?
“Not so those women loved
Who with exceeding grief lamented Thee;