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... Blood and water from broad wounds . The blood bought us from the bale of hell , And delivered us from the second death ; The water is baptism , truth to tell , That followed the lance so cruelly ground , Which washes away the deadly ...
... Blood and water from broad wounds . The blood bought us from the bale of hell , And delivered us from the second death ; The water is baptism , truth to tell , That followed the lance so cruelly ground , Which washes away the deadly ...
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... blood on the cross also flows from a fountain or well ( 649-50 ) . The metaphor links the narrator's remorse with Christ's sacrifice and , through the poem's associations , verbally transforms his reckless speech into an occasion for ...
... blood on the cross also flows from a fountain or well ( 649-50 ) . The metaphor links the narrator's remorse with Christ's sacrifice and , through the poem's associations , verbally transforms his reckless speech into an occasion for ...
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... blood cries out to me from the soil . Hence you are banned from the soil which forced open its mouth to take your brother's blood from your hand . When you till the soil , it shall not again give up its strength to you . A restless ...
... blood cries out to me from the soil . Hence you are banned from the soil which forced open its mouth to take your brother's blood from your hand . When you till the soil , it shall not again give up its strength to you . A restless ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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