Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PRIESTS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM


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First Line: Priests are in bad odour
Last Line: With scourge, pity, and prayer.
Subject(s): Clergy; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


PRIESTS are in bad odour,
And yet there shall be no lack of them...
The skies shall not lack a spokesman,
Nor the spirit of man a voice and a gesture...

Not garbed nor churched,
Yet, as of old, in loneliness and anguish,
They shall come eating and drinking among us,
With scourge, pity, and prayer.





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