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Devotional Poems

By Emily Hickey

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26 ST. STEPHEN, FIRST MARTYR
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ST. STEPHEN, FIRST MARTYR

Thine eyes, O Stephen, saw thy Lord and God
Standing to greet His martyr, from whose tongue
The accents of His living truth had rung:
First of the band who follow where He trod,
Like His, thy blood gave blessing to the sod;
Like His thy pardoning prayer for those that flung
Death over thee. To him in grace it clung,
Who was to wear love's ring, love-robed and shod.
To many a one thy “Welcome Home” was given;
But welcome's joy in supreme radiance glowed
When, chief among thy pardoned foes, full-shriven,
That soul in triumph entered God's abode,
(The Vision lent erewhile, for aye bestowed),
And Paul unshamed beheld the face of Stephen.