Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EVEN SO, COME, LORD JESUS', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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EVEN SO, COME, LORD JESUS', by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is a welter of blistering sorrow
Last Line: Even so, even so. Lord jesus, come
Subject(s): Jesus Christ


The world is a welter of blistering sorrow,
All is an anguish of infinite pain.
Where are the once happy hopes of to-morrow?
Under the festering heaps of the slain.
Where are the songs of the Bethlehem chorus?
Mocked in the battle, defeated and dumb.
Yet is one hope, and one promise, before us:
Even so, even so. Comforter, come!

Come, thongh the nations are reeling and falling;
Come, though the sages are silent in dread;
Come, though the mothers are sobbing and calling
Over the graves of the beautiful dead.
Deeper and darker our limitless error.
Louder the crash of the hurrying drum;
Wilder the maddening rush of our terror,
Even so, even so. Counsellor, come!

Come, while the impious rage and deny Thee;
Come at the height of their arrogant pride;
Come, while the ravening peoples defy Thee;
Come in Thy power and toss them aside.
Now, with Thine enemies reeking and gory,
Counting Thy saints as the slime and the scum;
Now, with the fiends at the top of their glory,
Even so, even so. Conqueror, come!

Come at the climax of horror and wailing.
Never so needed and never so sought.
Are not the prayers of Thy people prevailing?
Has not iniquity perfectly wrought?
Now. as the .ludases kiss and betray Thee,
Now, as their evil has made up the sum.
Now, as Thy people believingly pray Thee,
Even so, even so. Lord Jesus, come!





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