| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| The Sign of the Cross |
| | | John Henry Newman (1801–90) |
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| WHENE’ER across this sinful flesh of mine | |
| I draw the Holy Sign, | |
| All good thoughts stir within me, and renew | |
| Their slumbering strength divine; | |
| Till there springs up a courage high and true | 5 |
| To suffer and to do. | |
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| And who shall say, but hateful spirits around, | |
| For their brief hour unbound, | |
| Shudder to see, and wail their overthrow? | |
| While on far heathen ground | 10 |
| Some lonely Saint hails the fresh odor, though | |
| Its source he cannot know. | |
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