1904 · CLOSE READING
Why Jesus Wept
Why Jesus Wept (1904), PDF p. 23
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WHY JESUS WEPT
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Attained is the height.
Down like a plummet
To blackness and night
Hope goes. Not here,
Not here is Desire,
The ease from fear,
The ice from fire.
Not here — O God !
I would I were dead
Under the sod !
My brain is as lead.
My thoughts are as smoke.
My heart is a fire ;
I know not what fuel
Is feeding its fury !
In vain I invoke
The Lord of Desire !
He is evil and cruel.
The spells of Jewry
Are poured in his ear
In vain : he may hear not.
O would I were dumb !
For the pestilent fever
That bites my blood
Forces like fear
These babblings : I near not
The secret, nor come
To my purpose for ever.
A turbulent flood
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