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Why Jesus Wept
Why Jesus Wept (1904), PDF p. 25
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WHY JESUS WEPT
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In my ear, in my heart !
Here on the summit
The air is too thin.
Wild as the winds
Let me ride ! Let me start
Over the plains ;
For here my brain’s
Numb, it is dumb, it
Is torn by this passion.
Down ! Eagle-fashion
Drive to the level !
Teeth ! you may gnash on !
My body’s anguish
Is help to my soul.
Hail to the revel !
The dance of the devil,
The rhythms that languish,
The rhymes that roll !
Down like the swine
Of the gross Gadarene
In a maddening march
From the snow to the rock,
From the rock to the pine,
From the pine to the larch,
From the tree to the green !
He leaps down, then pauses.
O Devil ! to mock
With echo the roar
Of a young boy’s spirit !
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