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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CRITICS AT GETHSEMANE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography
First Line: Even here we meet the critics. The deep grief
Last Line: And works, in simple faith, as best she may.
Subject(s): Christianity; Gethsemane
First Line: Even here we meet the critics. The deep grief
Last Line: And works, in simple faith, as best she may.
Subject(s): Christianity; Gethsemane
Even here we meet the Critics. The deep grief,
Which all imaginative Art would faint
To express - the Angel's visit of relief -
The God bowed earthward like some mourning saint -
They tone down all in their unhappy way;
Distilling rose-tints from their Saviour's blood,
The God-man's sweat of anguish! to portray
Their sweet young Syrian - so divinely good,
'We must forgive His worshippers', they say;
Not so the Church! and tho' she needs must blush
At her own feeble handling, yet alway,
When she would paint her Master's darkest day,
She takes the full-hued life-drop on her brush,
And works, in simple faith, as best she may.
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