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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEEN ON A WAR-SHRINE IN PENNSYLVANIA, by E. M. GREEVES-CARPENTER
First Line: Silent and unbetrayed, a carven rood
Last Line: Whose crown of victory followed cross and thorns.
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Jesus Christ; Mothers & Sons; Pennsylvania; Shrines; Soldiers; War; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The
First Line: Silent and unbetrayed, a carven rood
Last Line: Whose crown of victory followed cross and thorns.
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Jesus Christ; Mothers & Sons; Pennsylvania; Shrines; Soldiers; War; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The
Silent and unbetrayed, a carven rood
Within a niche of stone I could descry
Amid the sheltering trees, as I drew nigh
A little space in a green solitude.
But where of old, with anguished fortitude
At Christ's right hand his Mother watched Him die,
Now, a bright crown of laurel holding high—
Fair honor's sign—a soldier's figure stood.
Then I bethought with what perceiving grace
How hands bereaved anew the tale thus told,
How in His Mother's heart her Son gave place
To broken men and grave: "Thy Son behold!"
And how for all men's sorrows He yet mourns,
Whose crown of victory followed cross and thorns.
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