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Never let any say I was unjust.
"The Son of God" he took for name, they said.
Belike one of their Syriac metaphors
Which, like hot-tempered kestrels, overfly
The quarry aimed at. But, if he did mean
To boast a mystic kindred with some source
Of life and thought divinely different
From the every-day plain sires who made our lives,
I'd never mock his claim until I knew
Its secret import. Not if the title was
Of his own taking. If the sheepish herds;
That flock around each new teacher, all asweat
With running and jostling for the nearest place,
To stare and wonder what he means and cry
"Oh the rare teacher!" till the next one comes,
So dubbed him, why, 'tis but the ancient tale:
The multitude, self-conscious, thinks a man
Must be a fool and base, and when it finds
One who is neither, or at least not both,
Is sure by that his father is a god,
Or he's a god himself, or going to be.
But Jesus if he said I am the Son
Of a divine one, or of the One God,
Implied some esoteric subtlety
With a great import - for I looked on him
And heard him speak, and his was no crazed soul,
Fired from its own dank heat like ill-housed ricks;
And no impostor, sane, would in such stead
Have kept so obstinate a courage.
Truth!
He claimed to know truth, which no man yet knew.
Was that his meaning? Truth is real life,
Such as the gods might have, and he had reached
To truth and so was as One near the gods,
Or near the great One God - which possibly
Is but a name of life.
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A Bride
A March Night
A Messenger
A Mother's Cry
A Wedding
Afterwards
Dead Amy
Deserted
Dreaming
Glad Waves
Going
How The Brook Sings
If
In The Storm
In The Sunshine
Looking Downstairs
Mary Lost
Never Again
Night Whispers
On The Lake
On The Shore
Our Lily
Passing Away
Perjured
Safe
Shadow
Sunlight
The Blush Rose
The Gift
The Heiress' Wooer
The Hidden Wound
The Lake
The Land Of Happy Dreams
The Old Year Out
The Red Star On The Hill
The River
The Setting Star
The Shadow Of A Cloud
To And Fro
To One Of Many
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