Ричард Уотсон Гилдер (Richard Watson Gilder) Текст оригинала на английском языке The Celestial Passion. Part 2. 4. Cost Because Heaven's cost is Hell, and perfect joy Hurts as hurts sorrow; and because we win Some boon of grace with the dread cost of sin, Or suffering born of sin; because the alloy Of blood but makes the bliss of victory brighter; Because true worth hath surest proof herein, That it should be reproached, and called akin To evil things—black making white the whiter; Because no cost seems great near this—that He Should pay the ransom wherewith we were priced; And none could name a darker infamy Than that a god was spit upon,—enticed By those he came to save, to the accursèd tree,— For this I know that Christ indeed is Christ. |
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