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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FLAMING CROSS, by GERTRUDE M. MCGRATH
First Line: Northward, high and lifted up
Last Line: Calls a warring world to brotherhood.
Subject(s): Cross, The
First Line: Northward, high and lifted up
Last Line: Calls a warring world to brotherhood.
Subject(s): Cross, The
Northward, high and lifted up,
Where all the busy world might see,
A fleecy cross hung in the sky,
Snow white in purity.
And as we watched -- awe-inspired --
This cross with living flame was fired, --
A crimson shaft from the setting sun
Changed the cross to a flaming one.
Northward, high and lifted up
To show that God is ever nigh,
This flaming cross hung as a sign
There in the azure sky, --
A covenant lest we forget
God in Heaven is with us yet.
This flaming cross, if man but would,
Calls a warring world to brotherhood.
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