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PRIESTS by JAMES OPPENHEIM

First Line: PRIESTS ARE IN BAD ODOUR
Last Line: WITH SCOURGE, PITY, AND PRAYER.
Subject(s): CLERGY; PRIESTS; RABBIS; MINISTERS; BISHOPS;
PRIESTS are in bad odour,
And yet there shall be no lack of them...
The skies shall not lack a spokesman,
Nor the spirit of man a voice and a gesture...

Not garbed nor churched,
Yet, as of old, in loneliness and anguish,
They shall come eating and drinking among us,
With scourge, pity, and prayer.



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