Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, RESURRECTION, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON


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First Line: We who have lived through these death-lusty days
Last Line: And in the lily's waxen pallor,—death.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The


WE who have lived through these death-lusty days,
And known vast darknesses of voiceless pain,
And seen our fairest loves most foully slain,
Our Christs denied anew in divers ways;
We who have pondered o'er each fleeting phase
Of pale suspense that made all hope seem vain,
That trailed worse things than death within her train,
And unmasked horror to our stricken gaze;

When from the sepulchre the stone we roll,
While in the East the light of morning glows,
And we come forth with bitter stabbing breath;
In every breast an unfamiliar soul
Will find but blood within the crimson rose,
And in the lily's waxen pallor,—death.





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