"Out of the woods my Master came,
Content with death and shame.
When Death and Shame would woo Him last,
From under the trees they drew Him last:
'Twas on a tree they slew Himlast
When out of the woods He came." Sidney Lanier (1842-1881), U.S. poet. A Ballad of Trees and the Master (l. 11-16). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press. |
"Into the woods my Master went,
Clean forspent, forspent.
Into the woods my Master came,
Forspent with love and shame,
But the olives they were not blind to Him;" Sidney Lanier (1842-1881), U.S. poet. A Ballad of Trees and the Master (l. 1-5). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press. |
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