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CHRIST AND APOLLO |
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SONNET X
CHRIST AND APOLLO
The force of Christ, his everlasting might
We need, the spirit superb that through him flows.
We also need the Christ within the rose:
We also need the sun-god's glance of light.
No one Ideal can content us quite.
Ever man's unextinguished yearning glows,
Fervent and deep the more, the more he knows.
Christ's hands were pierced. Apollo's limbs were white
We need, the spirit superb that through him flows.
We also need the Christ within the rose:
We also need the sun-god's glance of light.
No one Ideal can content us quite.
Ever man's unextinguished yearning glows,
Fervent and deep the more, the more he knows.
Christ's hands were pierced. Apollo's limbs were white
O God, whom all the universe explains,
Reveals, expresses, surely thou art found
Enthroned in every heart, whose shrine contains
The love of thee! Not in earth's sunless fanes
Art thou by hands of priests immured and bound!
Free, ever, thy true worshipper remains.
Reveals, expresses, surely thou art found
Enthroned in every heart, whose shrine contains
The love of thee! Not in earth's sunless fanes
Art thou by hands of priests immured and bound!
Free, ever, thy true worshipper remains.
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