THEY ERE WHO SAY THIS LONG-WITHDRAWING LINE
by: Samuel Ferguson (1810-1886)
- HEY err
who say this long-withdrawing line
- Of palace-fronts Palladian, this brocade
- From looms of Genoa, this gold-inlaid
- Resplendent plate of Milan, that combine
- To spread soft lustre through the grand design,
- Show but in fond factitious masquerade
- The actual feast by leper Simon made
- For that great Guest, of old, in Palestine.
- Christ walks amongst us still; at liberal table
- Scorns not to sit: no sorrowing Magdalene
- But of these dear feet kindly gets her kiss
- Now, even as then; and thou, be honorable,
- Who, by the might of thy majestic scene,
- Bringest down that age and minglest it with this.
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