Sunday, September 22, 2024

Someday Such Men Will Live in Palaces - poem

  

Lawrence Hall, HSG

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Such Men Will Someday Live in Palaces

 

Cf. Saint Matthew 11

 

I am only a visitor here, unqualified to speak

Of the incessant sufferings of men of God

Who may not go beyond the compassing wire

To see a reed shaken with the wind

 

For they sometimes are wind-struck reeds themselves

Planted for a time in this desert of penance

But they are men, and do not easily shake -

When the bitter wind blows they stand up straight

 

They do not raise their fists against the wind

But rather their hearts in manly strength and faith

 

Such men will someday live in palaces

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