{"id":280,"date":"2012-11-06T04:07:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T04:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/?page_id=280"},"modified":"2012-11-06T04:08:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T04:08:27","slug":"an-ode-on-the-suffering-christ","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/?page_id=280","title":{"rendered":"An Ode on the Suffering Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"

(From The Christian Epic<\/em>, Chapter 6)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0I sing no noble warrior, fighter brave<\/strong><\/address>\n
<\/strong>\u00a0Who stood ablaze to hopeless battle\u2019s fate,<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
No moral marvel sweeping swords to save<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
And free the mongrel mass from unjust hate.<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0No Hammer of Hasmonean war,<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0No brothers on the field of Agincourt\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
I sing no honored prophet lifted high<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
On chariot wings, on Arab warrior songs,<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
On angel-spoken phrases in the seventh sky<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
That cast their warning on the unrepentant wrongs.<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0No hero \u2018gainst the Baal priests,<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0No warrior prophet at the Meccan feasts\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
I sing no life- and pain-transcending saint<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
Who stands amused at other masters\u2019 rot,<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
No pure, untempted wisdom, sorrow\u2019s feint,<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
All unbesmirched by sense and finite thought.<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0No stony vine-wrapped sage,<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0No Kshantivadin bearing thoughtless rage\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
\u00a0<\/address>\n
I sing a suff\u2019ring Son of Man<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
Who bore a sorrow never human can,<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
Who felt the chill of cool Gethsemane,<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
Who knew the scent of olive tree,<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
Who wept for nail and thorn and tomb<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
And unimagined sinner\u2019s doom.<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0So cried the glorious, uncreated One,<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Who, crushed into the finite, fleshly shell,<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Was crushed again, and, torture done,<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Cried out the more the loneliness of hell.<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
And this the wonder, clear as needed breath:<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
This man is God in human life and death.<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
For God alone could bear the pain,<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
As God alone could bear His own disdain.<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Come pious ones and pagan, rage anew,<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Unless this tale be strangely, wildly true!<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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