"@3Compel them to come in@1." -- ST. LUKE'S GOSPEL YOU "made a virtue of necessity" By divine sanction; you, the loth, the grey, The random, gentle, unconvinced; O be The crowned! -- you may, you may. You, the compelled, be feasted! You, the caught, Be freemen of the gates that word unlocks! Accept your victory from that unsought, That heavenly paradox. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEGY: THE GHOST WHOSE LIPS WERE WARM; FOR GEOFFREY GORER by EDITH SITWELL BIRD AND BROOK by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES HASTE NOT! REST NOT! by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE ST. SIMEON STYLITES by ALFRED TENNYSON THE HYMNARY: 324. WHITSUNTIDE by ADAM OF SAINT VICTOR EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 33. LOVE KEEPS ALL THINGS IN ORDER by PHILIP AYRES |