Modern Poets And Christian Teaching Richard Watson Gilder Edwin Markham Edwar
Modern Poets And Christian Teaching Richard Watson Gilder Edwin Markham Edwar
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We quote the poet s reply to the objections and questions that have been raised Ah no! If the Christ you mean Shall pass from this time, this scene, These hearts, these lives of ours, Tis but as the summer flowers Pass, but return again, To gladden a world of men. For he the only, the true In each age, in each waiting heart, Leaps into life anew; Though he pass, he shall not depart. Behold him now where he comes! Not the Christ of our subtile creeds, But the lord of our hearts, of our homes, Of... our hopes, our prayers, our needs; The brother of want and blame, The lover of women and men, With a love that puts to shame All passions of mortal ken; 68 RICHARD WATSON GILDER Ah no, thou life of the heart, Never shalt thou depart! Not till the leaven of God Shall lighten each human clod; Not till the world shall climb To thy height serene, sublime, Shall the Christ who enters our door Pass to return no more. If one would know the poet s personal thought and feeling for Christ he must read "Credo.
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