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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MISTAKING, by STEFAN GEORGE Poet's Biography
First Line: In mourning the apostle night and day
Last Line: He had not seen: the lord had come and gone.
First Line: In mourning the apostle night and day
Last Line: He had not seen: the lord had come and gone.
In mourning the apostle night and day
Lay on the hill whence Christ had entered Heaven:
"Do you thus leave your faithful to despair?
Has this your splendor blinded you to earth?
Shall I not ever hear your voice again,
And kiss your garment's hem and kiss your feet?
I clamor for a sign · yet you are silent."
Then there approached a stranger: "Brother speak!
Upon your cheek there burns such agony
That it will singe me if I cannot quench it."
"Your comfort avails nothing .. leave the stricken!
I seek my Lord who has forgotten me."
The stranger vanished .. the apostle knelt
With a wild cry · for by heaven's radiance
Which hung about that place he was aware
That through blind pain and all too fragile hope
He had not seen: the Lord had come and gone.
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