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THE CHIEFEST AMONG TEN THOUSAND (1) by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: O JESU, BETTER THAN THY GIFTS
Last Line: FOR THEE, O ONLY LORD, FOR THEE.
Subject(s): JESUS CHRIST;
O JESU, better than Thy gifts
Art Thou Thine only Self to us!
Palm branch its triumph, harp uplifts
Its triumph-note melodious:
But what are such to such as we?
O Jesu, better than Thy saints
Art Thou Thine only Self to us!
The heart faints and the spirit faints
For only Thee all-Glorious,
For Thee, O only Lord, for Thee.



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