Here meet together the prefiguring day <br />And day prefigured. “Eating, thou shalt stand, <br />Feet shod, loins girt, thy road-staff in thine hand, <br />With blood-stained door and lintel,”—did God say <br />By Moses' mouth in ages passed away. <br />And now, where this poor household doth comprise <br />At Paschal-Feast two kindred families,— <br />Lo! the slain lamb confronts the Lamb to slay. <br />The pyre is piled. What agony's crown attained, <br />What shadow of Death the Boy's fair brow subdues <br />Who holds that blood wherewith the porch is stained <br />By Zachary the priest? John binds the shoes <br />He deemed himself not worthy to unloose; <br />And Mary culls the bitter herbs ordained.<br /><br />Dante Gabriel Rossetti<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-passover-in-the-holy-family-for-a-drawing/
