Friday, March 29, 2013

A poem for Good Friday

Am I a stone, and not a sheep,
That I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy cross,
To number drop by drop Thy Blood’s slow loss,
And yet not weep?

 
Not so those women loved
Who with exceeding grief lamented Thee;
Not so fallen Peter weeping bitterly;
Not so the thief was moved;

 
Not so the Sun and Moon
Which hid their faces in a starless sky.
A horror of great darkness at broad noon –

I, only I.
 
Yet give not o’er
But seek Thy sheep, true Shepherd of the flock;
Greater than Moses, turn and look once more
And smite a rock.
 
Christina Rossetti

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