RPO -- Richard Crashaw : Divine Epigrams: On the Baptized Ethiopian

Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)

Divine Epigrams: On the Baptized Ethiopian

1Let it no longer be a forlorn hope

2 To wash an Ethiope;

3He's wash'd, his gloomy skin a peaceful shade,

4 For his white soul is made;

5And now, I doubt not, the Eternal Dove

6 A black-fac'd house will love.

Notes

1] First published in Steps to the Temple, 1646. Some of the epithets were revised in the enlarged edition of 1648, and in Carmen Deo Nostro (1652). There are also earlier Latin versions.

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Original text: Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (1646.) Facs. edn.: Scolar Press, 1970. PR 3386 A75 1970 ROBA.
First publication date: 1646
RPO poem editor: N. J. Endicott
RP edition: 3RP 1.337.
Recent editing: 4:2002/2/12

Form: Couplets

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