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Shall Christ hang on the Cross, and we not look? / Heaven, earth, and hell stood gazing at the first, / While Christ for long-cursed man was counted cursed; / Christ, God and Man, Whom God the Father strook / And shamed and sifted and one while forsook: -- / Cry shame upon our bodies we have nursed / In sweets, our souls in pride, our spirits immersed / In wilfulness, our steps run all acrook. / Cry shame upon us! for He bore our shame / In agony, and we look on at ease / With neither hearts on flame nor cheeks on flame: / What hast thou, what have I, to do with peace? / Not to send peace but send a sword He came, / And fire and fasts and tearful night-watches.