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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SON, by ROBERT LEOPOLD WOLF
First Line: When jesus was a child, did people say
Last Line: The gallows, or the cross, or some bad end.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth
First Line: When jesus was a child, did people say
Last Line: The gallows, or the cross, or some bad end.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth
When Jesus was a child, did people say,
"Oh, yes, I talked that way when I was young"?
Did Joseph storm and Mary maybe pray
Repentance for his keen irreverent tongue?
And all the bearded elders of the land,
Did they not urge diplomacy and tact,
And tell Him one could make a stronger stand
By not mistaking pleasing dreams for fact?
They must have wagged imposing Jewish chins
In such disapprobation of that youth
That all His playmates shuddered at His sins,
While one gray crony -- laying down the truth,
Predicted God would punish Him and send
The gallows, or the cross, or some bad end.
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