tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778905687600416321.post3087492842113935159..comments2023-11-05T02:55:10.230-06:00Comments on Gottesdienst Online: An Impious PoemPr. H. R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16756503062523543708noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778905687600416321.post-65960813316517178792010-11-17T22:06:50.519-06:002010-11-17T22:06:50.519-06:00Oops that should be John KEBLE.Oops that should be John KEBLE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778905687600416321.post-63654308424126415422010-11-17T22:02:43.905-06:002010-11-17T22:02:43.905-06:00lectionarycentral.com always has linked poems of J...lectionarycentral.com always has linked poems of John Keeble for all the Sundays in the Church Year. Keeble was Chair of Poetry at Oxford.<br /><br />Here is s few snippets of his Advent I poem <br /><br /><br />AWAKE—again the Gospel-trump is blown— <br />From year to year it swells with louder tone, <br />From year to year the signs of wrath <br />Are gathering round the Judge's path, <br />Strange words fulfill'd, and mighty works achiev'd, <br />And truth in all the world both hated and believ'd.<br /><br />Awake! why linger in the gorgeous town, <br />Sworn liegemen of the Cross and thorny crown? <br />Up from your beds of sloth for shame, <br />Speed to the eastern mount like flame, <br />Nor wonder, should ye find your King in tears <br />Even with the loud Hosanna ringing in his ears.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Even so, the world is thronging round to gaze <br />On the dread vision of the latter days, <br />Constrain'd to own Thee, but in heart <br />Prepared to take Barabbas' part: <br />"Hosanna" now, to-morrow "Crucify," <br />The changeful burden still of their rude lawless cry. <br /><br />Yet in that throng of selfish hearts untrue <br />Thy sad eye rests upon thy faithful few, <br />Children and childlike souls are there, <br />Blind Bartimeus' humble prayer, <br />And Lazarus waken'd from his four days' sleep, <br />Enduring life again, that Passover to keep.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com