W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895.
Mary’s Gift
George Thomas Coster (1835–1912)I
That cruise of spikenard sweet and rare!
She entered in at Simon’s door
With trembling, though familiar there.
Had brought her brother back from death?
It was her best, yet poor and small
For Him, the Lord of pulse and breath!
Of praise He twined about her name.
It lit for Him the cave of Death:
“Against my burial she came!”