Two Sonnets by William Alabaster, Op. 87 - II. On the Reed of Our Lord's Passion

Long tyme hath Christ (long tyme I must confesse)

Held me a hollo

we Reede within his hande,

That merited in Hell to make a brande

Had not his grace supplied mine emptines.

Oft time with languor and newfangleness

Had I bene borne a

waye like sifted sande