Poems (Barrett)/The Two Sayings
THE TWO SAYINGS.
Two sayings of the Holy Scriptures beat Like pulses, in the Church's brow and breast; And, by them, we find rest in our unrest, And, heart-deep in salt tears, do yet entreat God's fellowship, as if on Heavenly seat. One is, And Jesus wept,—whereon is prest Full many a sobbing face that drops its best And sweetest waters on the record sweet:—And one is, where the Christ denied and scorned Looked upon Peter! Oh, to render plain, By help of having loved a little, and mourned,—That look of sovran love and sovran pain, Which He who could not sin, yet suffered, turned On him who could reject, but not sustain!