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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

Is hung with bloom along the bough

And stands about the woodland ride

Wearing white for Eastertide.

 

Now, of my three score years and ten,

Twenty will not come again,

And take from seventy springs a score;

It leaves me only fifty more.

 

And since to look at things in bloom

Fifty springs are little room,

About the woodland I will go

To see the cherry, hung with snow.*

Best wishes, 2RM

*AE Housman, A Shropshire Lad, 1896

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Hmmm. You guys are allowed to contribute your thoughts to this thread, also. Jesus' sacrifice is only sensible if one loves, and shares in His love for the world and it's people. So you are welcome to submit your perspectives, this Easter season.

Best wishes, 2RM.

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If in that Syrian garden, ages slain,
You sleep, and know not you are dead in vain,
Nor even in dreams behold how dark and bright
Ascends in smoke and fire by day and night
The hate you died to quench and could but fan,
Sleep well and see no morning, son of man.

But if, the grave rent and the stone rolled by,
At the right hand of majesty on high
You sit, and sitting so remember yet
Your tears, your agony and bloody sweat,
Your cross and passion and the life you gave,
Bow hither out of heaven and see and save. *

I had always loved this poem as consummate literature, to the extent that I learned it off by heart. And so, one dark winter's night, when all my material ambitions were dust, and the world seemed particularly challenged by a lacking of sympathy and empathy, I found myself reciting it, for consolation. Yet, as the words ran through my mind, they were not by way of mere pleasure of form, content and expression, but as open-hearted prayer. And, much to my consternation, God answered that prayer, not by saving the world as I wanted, but by saving me. And by invading my heart with His love. And so I became a Christian. Odd that Housman, an atheist and a homosexual, should be the agent of my salvation. But God works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform.

Best wishes, 2RM

*AE Housman, An Easter Hymn, 1936

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