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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN GALILEE, by MARY FRANCES MARSHALL BUTTS Poet's Biography
First Line: Roman and jew upon one level lie
Last Line: And still the lilies bloom in galilee.
Subject(s): Galilee, Palestine
First Line: Roman and jew upon one level lie
Last Line: And still the lilies bloom in galilee.
Subject(s): Galilee, Palestine
ROMAN and Jew upon one level lie;
Great Herod's palaces are ground to dust;
Upon the synagogues are mould and rust;
Night winds among the tottering columns sigh;
Yet sparrows through the massive ruins fly,
And o'er the sacred earth's embroidered crust
Still goes the sower forth to sow, still must
The shepherd with his sheep sit listlessly.
There towers the mountain where the Teacher spake
In those old times the sweet Beatitudes,
Surviving kings and codes, fair words and feuds.
There creeps the Jordan to its destined lake,
The fisher casts his net into the sea,
And still the lilies bloom in Galilee.
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