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CONTEMPORARY, by                    
First Line: Then to emmaus with him I, too, walked
Last Line: It threw a cross of shadow on the room.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice


Then to Emmaus with him I, too, walked.
No mark of nails in hand or feet I traced.
So quietly of star-wise dream he talked,
I did not know a savior with me paced
The dripping city streets; that, by my side,
In the familiar clothes of modern men,
There lived again the tale of one who died
To make earth good -- the thorns, the scourge again.
At lunch he told in simple phrase to me
The story of the strike and his arrest,
Charged with inciting murder. A near tree
Bent while he told of prison, Death his guest,
And when he spoke of rising from that tomb
It threw a cross of shadow on the room.





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