garments quotes

   They pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 22:16^18.

Behold,Icomeas athief.Blessed ishethat watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathereth them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation16:15^16.

The hills tell each other, and the listening Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned Up to thy holy feet visit our clime. Come o'er the eastern hills and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath. Scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

-Blake,William
  Poetical Sketches,'To Spring'.

Th' have left thee naked, Lord,O that they had! Thisgarment too I would they had denied. Thee with thyself they have too richly clad, Opening the purple wardrobe of thy side. O never could be found garments too good For thee to wear, but these, of thine own blood.

-Crashaw, Richard
  'On Our Crucified Lord, Naked and Bloody'.

Borrowed garments never fit well.

-Fuller,Thomas
  Gnomologia, no.1008.

There was a young belle of old Natchez Whose garments were always in patchez. When comment arose On the state of her clothes, She drawled, When Ah itchez, Ah scratchez.

-Nash, (Frederic) Ogden
  I'm a Stranger Here Myself,'Requiem'.

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