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From: john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley)
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Subject: a love sonnet
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		PROTHALAMION

O come, Desired!  Our wedding-song's rehearsed
in every hymn -- sing, sun and stars of light!
Our Bridegroom, come!  Thy sudden glory burst
through hearts and sky -- ended be this long night!
Daystar arise!  and raise us, living rain,
soften us, parched, mortal, ashes and dust.
O King!  from all thy lands, as scattered grain,
broken, thy body, gather us crumb and crust.
Hold us, Beloved!  Lead to our marriage-bower
thy Bride, dark, splendid, comely, kept for thee.
O bundle of myrrh, our lily, Sharon-flower,
sweet savour, Saviour, take us!  Shadows flee,
day breathe!  Let tears be dried, hurts, hearts be healed,
and thou, Lord Christ, our life, love, be revealed!



Criticism either from the standpoint of sense or of poetry is more than
welcome.  (I'm trying to become a better poet and a better Christian.)
Any other Christian poets out there?
-- 
				Peace and Good!,
				      Fr. John Woolley
"Compared to what I have seen, all that I have written is straw." -- St. Thomas