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Richard Crashaw
1612 - 1649 / England
On The Baptized Ethiopian
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Let it no longer be a forlorn hope
To wash an Ethiop :
He's wash'd, his gloomy skin a peaceful shade
For his white soul is made :
And now, I doubt not, the Eternal Dove
A black-faced house will love.
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