In the Wilderness - Robert Graves CHRIST of His gentleness | |
Thirsting and hungering, | |
Walked in the wilderness; | |
Soft words of grace He spoke | |
Unto lost desert-folk | 5 |
That listened wondering. | |
He heard the bitterns call | |
From ruined palace-wall, | |
Answered them brotherly. | |
He held communion | 10 |
With the she-pelican | |
Of lonely piety. | |
Basilisk, cockatrice, | |
Flocked to his homilies, | |
With mail of dread device, | 15 |
With monstrous barbéd slings, | |
With eager dragon-eyes; | |
Great rats on leather wings | |
And poor blind broken things, | |
Foul in their miseries. | 20 |
And ever with Him went, | |
Of all His wanderings | |
Comrade, with ragged coat, | |
Gaunt ribs—poor innocent— | |
Bleeding foot, burning throat, | 25 |
The guileless old scapegoat; | |
For forty nights and days | |
Followed in Jesus’ ways, | |
Sure guard behind Him kept, | |
Tears like a lover wept. |
Everyday Oneness
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