Perfect Chastity: Celibacy and Virgin Marriage in Tractarian Poetry.
Victorian Poetry, 2006, Spring, 44, 1
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In Lyra Apostolica (1836), a collection of devotional verse by a group of founding and early Tractarians, the poem "Awe" ends thus:/p pre And so albeit His woe is our release, Thought of that woe aye dims our earthly peace; The Life is hidden in a Fount of Blood!-- And this is tidings good, But in the Angel's reckoning, and to those Who Angel-wise have chose And kept, like Paul, a virgin course, content To go where Jesus went; But for the many laden with the spot And earthly taint of sin, 'tis written,
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