Read George Herbert’s “The Sacrifice,” a poem from the perspective of Christ on the Cross, quoted and linked after the jump. Do you see how it influenced the beloved Lenten hymn “My Song Is Love Unknown”? (Throw in Herbert’s poem Love Unknown and you’ve pretty much got the whole hymn.)
The Sacrifice
by George Herbert
Oh all ye, who passe by, whose eyes and minde
To worldly things are sharp, but to me blinde;
To me, who took eyes that I might you finde:
Was ever grief like mine?The Princes of my people make a head
Against their Maker: they do wish me dead,
Who cannot wish, except I give them bread: