Poetry

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—Peter Steele, SJ

Closing the scroll and sitting down to preach He went to war. His people, tired by the quern Or the long slog at the plough, might hope to reach A blurred tranquility, but not to burn   As the lines did in the old book when they claimed That every prison should be breached, the blind Drink at the blessed font of light, the maimed Walk tall, the poor be heard when they spok (...)


 

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