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THE MIRACLE SONGS

OF JESUS

BY WILSON MACDONALD

Copyright 1921

Published November, 1921

All rights reserved

FOREWORD

THE MIRACLE SONGS OF JESUS

Jesus, the poet of Galilee, Fashioned the light in His lyric hands, And held it up for all men to see: The Publican and the Pharisee, The merchant rich and the robber bands On the outcast fringe of Galilee. But all of the wise men sneered at Him; And the gay young fellows jeered at Him; And only a fisherman fool or two Looked up at the Light with its liquid hue And drank its beauty of red and blue.

Jesus, the poet of Galilee, Sang that the weary might be free; Sang of the lilies--how their glory Shamed the best at a king's command; Sang His truths in a lyric story Even the poor could understand. And the wise men heard and they tried to scan The rhymes of the poet Son-of-Man. But, every time that He sang, they found Some cherished rule of their pedant school Was killed in his poem's strange, new sound.

And Jesus, the poet, grew sick at heart And fled from the halls where learning kills; And took His verse from the fear of art To the bold delight of the rain-washed hills. And the songs He sang to the desert sea Were far too sweet for the ears of men; But the gray-white dunes of Galilee Have blown with a fairer flower since then.

A learned group of dons will gloat At a fool's last word in a high priest's throat. But the song of God in a Carpenter's saw Could never hold wise men in awe. And whenever Christ, the bard, would sing They lost His truth in a hammer's ring.

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