Mystic Trees by Michael Field [i.e. K. H. Bradley and E. E. Cooper] |
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| THE PASCHAL LAND |
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THE PASCHAL LAND
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“Have you been in the Paschal Land?”“O where, for I do not understand?”
“It is in the forty days of grace,
Where any day one may see God's Face;
It is there, the Paschal Land.
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“I am come from where it is—In Jerusalem; and where He goes,
Even He Himself. I am one of those,
I am one of the Witnesses.
III
“The flowers so blue in their bloom,The lambs so nimble, so shrill in bleat—
Once they pursued, ran up to His Feet.
Fair land of the open tombs!
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“The Mother is there,By the palm-trees, or in her abode;
Peter, they say, passed the Lord on the road;
One may meet Him anywhere.
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By the way the cattle drinkWe feel there is blessing on the land;
The very old rise, listen, stand,
Listen on the air, and do not think.
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“He is as a man come home—
Not yet seen of men about the place.
As a neighbour He asks the grace
Of a fish or a honeycomb:
But I have not seen His Face.”
Not yet seen of men about the place.
As a neighbour He asks the grace
Of a fish or a honeycomb:
But I have not seen His Face.”
“I come with you to the Paschal Land.”
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