Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ST. JOHN, APOSTLE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI



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First Line: Earth cannot bar flame from ascending
Last Line: That we in thee may abide together.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): John The Apostle, Saint (1st Century)


EARTH cannot bar flame from ascending,
Hell cannot bind light from descending,
Death cannot finish life never ending.

Eagle and sun gaze at each other,
Eagle at sun, brother at Brother,
Loving in peace and joy one another.

O St. John, with chains for thy wages,
Strong thy rock where the stormblast rages,
Rock of refuge, the Rock of Ages.

Rome hath passed with her awful voice,
Earth is passing with all her joys,
Heaven shall pass away with a noise.

So from us all follies that please us,
So from us all falsehoods that ease us, --
Only all saints abide with their Jesus.

Jesus, in love looking down hither,
Jesus, by love draw us up thither,
That we in Thee may abide together.





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