Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A VIRILE CHRIST, by REX BOUNDY


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A VIRILE CHRIST, by                    
First Line: Give us a virile christ for these rough days!
Last Line: Silent, upon the cross on calvary?
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology


Give us a virile Christ for these rough days!
You painters, sculptors, show the warrior bold;
And you who turn mere words to gleaming gold,
Too long your lips have sounded in the praise
Of patience and humility. Our ways
Have parted from the quietude of old;
We need a man of strength with us to hold
The very breach of Death without amaze.
Did he not scourge from temple courts the thieves?
And make the arch-fiend's self again to fall?
And blast the fig-tree that was only leaves?
And still the raging tumult of the seas?
Did he not bear the greatest pain of all,
Silent, upon the cross on Calvary?





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