Panama and Other Poems Narrative and Occasional By Stephen Phillips: With a Frontispiece by Joseph Pennell |
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JESUS AND JOAN |
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JESUS AND JOAN
When Jesus greeted Joan in the After-twilight,When the Crucified kissed the Burned;
Then softly they spoke together, solemnly, sweetly,
They two so branded with life.
But they spoke not at all of Cross, or of up-piled flaming,
Or the going from them of God;
But he was tender over the soul of the Roman,
Who yielded him up to the priest;
And she was whist with pity for him that lighted
The faggot in Rouen town.
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