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THE FUGITIVE by ALICE MEYNELL

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First Line: YES, FROM THE INGRATE HEART, THE STREET
Last Line: THAT FEED HIS MAN -- THE BREAD, THE WINE.
Subject(s): JESUS CHRIST;
YES, from the ingrate heart, the street
Of garrulous tongue, the warm retreat
Within the village and the town;
Not from the lands where ripen brown
A thousand thousand hills of wheat;

Not from the long Burgundian line,
The Southward, sunward range of vine.
Hunted, He never will escape
The flesh, the blood, the sheaf, the grape,
That feed His man -- the bread, the wine.



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