William Baxter Calvary (1851)

 

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L A D I E S '   R E P O S I T O R Y .
N O V E M B E R,   1 8 5 1 .

 

C A L V A R Y .
BY WILLIAM BAXTER.
CALVARY! upon thy summit
    Once the Savior stood,
Shedding, for a world's redemption,
    Precious tears and blood:
Tears, for human woe and blindness,
    There were freely shed;
Blood for human guilt flowed freely
    From his thorn-wreathed head.

Calvary! thine is a story,
    Telling man of love
Which brought down the Lord from heaven,
    From his throne above.
See him, sinner, for thee bleeding!
    Bleeding, thee to save
From sin's fearful condemnation,
    And the gloomy grave!

Calvary! the saint, when dying,
    Turns to thee his eyes;
And in God's appointed victim
    Sees his sacrifice;
Rests upon it; clings unto it;
    O, what visions rise!
For him Calvary now opens,
    A bright paradise.

 

[The Ladies' Repository 11 (November 1851): 413.]

ABOUT THE ELECTRONIC EDITION

      William Baxter's "Calvary" was first published in The Ladies' Repository: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to Literature and Religion, Vol. 11, No. 11, November 1851, p. 413. This volume, edited by B. F. Tefft, was published in Cincinnati by L. Swormstedt and J. H. Power and in New York by G. Lane and L. Scott.

      Addenda and corrigenda are earnestly solicited.

Ernie Stefanik
Derry, PA

Created 16 April 2000.
Updated 28 June 2003.

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