Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SEQUEL TO FINALITY, by PATRICK F. KIRBY


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SEQUEL TO FINALITY, by                    
First Line: They drove the hammered nails into his hands
Last Line: Unseen one rode, who had been crucified.
Subject(s): Religion; Theology


They drove the hammered nails into His hands,
His hands that shaped the hot sun overhead;
Then all prepared to return to their own lands,
Glad in the knowledge God at last was dead.

"Now Babel can be built, and none deny!
In its cool gardens shall we take our ease;
Nor need we fear the everseeing eye, --
Our gods shall be whatever gods we please.

"Ishtar shall guard us, mother of all men,
And Bel rejoice us when the winds blow spiced
From Indus. Wine and song shall glad us then, --
We never loved this wistful, pallid Christ!"

So each rode homeward. And by each one's side
Unseen One rode, Who had been crucified.





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