Classic Poem

“In Jerusalem, Jordan, and Galilee,
where baptized folk the good Saint John,
his words accorded with Isaiah's.
When Jesus was come a-nigh to him,
he spake of Him this prophecy:—
‘Behold God's Lamb, as true as stone,
who doth away the endless sins
that all this world hath ever wrought.
Yet He Himself wrought never one,
though on Himself all sins He laid.
His generation who can tell,
that died for us in Jerusalem?’