Am I a stone, and not a sheep, That I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy cross, To number drop by drop Thy blood’s slow loss, And yet not weep? Not so those women loved Who with exceeding grief lamented Thee; Not so fallen Peter weeping bitterly; Not so the thief was moved; Not so [...]
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Good Friday / C. Rossetti
Posted in EASTER, Poetry on 23 April 2011 | 2 Comments »
Good Friday
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Good Friday
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It is difficult when speaking of God to speak. Ineffability is like that. When I finished Flowers for Algernon recently, I wept. My analytical literary self deduced that Charlie Gordon is a microcosm of every individual, emerging from oblivion to self-awareness, only to lose oneself in age and death; in grieving for Charlie, I mourn [...]
