William Baxter Mount Calvary (1869)
The Ladies' Repository. July 1869

 

M O U N T   C A L V A R Y .
MOUNT where the Savior bled and died for me,
What sweet, what hallowed memories arise,
Where'er by faith I fix my longing eyes,
O sacred, bleeding Calvary, on thee!
Divine compassion, wondrous love, appears
Too vast, too boundless, for poor human thought;
When God to man such free salvation brought,
Through the Redeemer's groans, and blood, and tears.
Memory shall turn to thee, and there shall rest;
And as a dove upon thee fold its wings,
To rest forgetful of all earthly things,
And in thy solemn solitude be blest.
Thou art the mount of hope; O, may I see
Its full fruition in eternity!

 

[The Ladies' Repository 29 (July 1869): 68.]

ABOUT THE ELECTRONIC EDITION

      William Baxter's "Mount Calvary" was first published in The Ladies' Repository: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to Literature and Religion, Vol. 29, No. 7 (New Series, Vol. 4, No. 1), July 1869, p. 68. This volume, edited by I. W. Wiley, was published in Cincinnati by Hitchcock and Walden and in New York by Carlton and Lanahan.

      Addenda and corrigenda are earnestly solicited.

Ernie Stefanik
Derry, PA

Created 19 April 2000.
Updated 28 June 2003.

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