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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VIA CRUCIS, VIA LUCIS, by PHOEBE CARY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Questioning, blind, unsatisfied Last Line: And the way of the cross is the way of light! Subject(s): Jesus Christ | |||
QUESTIONING, blind, unsatisfied, Out of the dark my spirit cried, -- Wherefore for sinners, lost, undone, Gave the Father his only Son? Clear and sweet there came reply, -- Out of my soul or out of the sky A voice like music answered: -- God so loved the world, it said. Could not the Lord from heaven give aid? Why was He born of the mother-maid? Only the Son of man could be Touched with man's infirmity! Why must He lay his infant head In the manger, where the beasts were fed? So that the poorest here might cry, My Lord was as lowly born as I! Why for friends did He choose to know Sinners and harlots here below? Not to the righteous did He come, But to find and bring the wanderers home. He was tempted? Yes, He sounded then All that hides in the hearts of men; And He knoweth, when we intercede, How to succor our souls in their need. Why should they whom He called his own, Deny, betray Him, leave Him alone? That He might know their direst pain, Who have trusted human love in vain! Must He needs have washed the traitor's feet Ere his abasement was made complete? Yea, for women have thus laid down Their hearts for a Judas to trample on! By one cup might He not drink less; Nor lose one drop of the bitterness; Must He suffer, though without blame, Stripes and buffeting, scorn and shame? Alas! and wherefore should it be That He must die on Calvary; Must bear the pain and the cruel thrust, Till his heart with its very anguish burst? That martyrs, dying for his name, Whether by cross, or flood, or flame, Might know they were called to bear no more Than He, their blessed Master, bore. What did He feel in that last dread cry? The height and the depth of agony! All the anguish a mortal can, Who dies forsaken of God and man! Is there no way to Him at last But that where His bleeding feet have passed? Did he not to his followers say, I am the Life, the Light, the Way? Yea, and still from the heavens He saith The gate of life is the gate of death; Peace is the crown of faith's good fight, And the way of the cross is the way of light! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GREEN CHRIST by ANDREW HUDGINS MEDITATION ON SAVIORS by ROBINSON JEFFERS COMPANIONSHIP by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK TO A WREN ON CALVARY by LARRY LEVIS THE TRANSFIGURATION by EDWIN MUIR SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 1. BEAST, PEACH.. by MARVIN BELL A LEGEND OF THE NORTHLAND by PHOEBE CARY |
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