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Christina Rossetti

Is this the Face that thrills with awe
  Seraphs who veil their face above?
Is this the Face without a flaw,
  The Face that is the Face of Love?
Yea, this defaced, a lifeless clod,
  Hath all creation’s love sufficed,
Hath satisfied the love of God,
  This Face the Face of Jesus Christ.

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From Poems | Little, Brown, and Company, 1906

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