The Two Sayings

The Two Sayings

Two savings of the Holy Scriptures beat

Like pulses in the Churchs brow and breast;

And by them we find rest in our unrest

And, heart deep in salt-tears, do yet entreat

Gods fellowship as if on heavenly seat.

The first is JESUS WEPT,--whereon is prest

Full many a sobbing face that drops its best

And sweetest waters on the record sweet:

And one is where the Christ, denied and scorned

LOOKED UPON PETER. Oh, to render plain

By help of having loved a little and mourned,

That look of sovran love and sovran pain

Which HE, who could not sin yet suffered, turned

On him who could reject but not sustain !

Elizabeth Barrett Browning