PASSION-FLOWER. 



(PASSIFLORA C/ERUIiEA.) 



" Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows." 



Isaiah liii. 4. 



With reverence view the Passion-flower ; 



Put forth no hasty hand 

 To pluck it from its trellised bower 

 And cast it on the strand, — 

 As 'twere some ordinary thing of earth, 

 Or consonant with giddy joy and reckless mirth. 



The Passion-flower, mysterious name, 



What awfal scenes recalling p ! — 

 Gethsemane, the cross and shame. 

 The scourge upon Him falling. 

 The crown of thorns upon His sacred brow, 

 The purple robe, the nails, the spear, the streams that flow. 



