WHERE THE BLESSED FEET HAVE TROD
by: Michael Field [pen
name of Katherine Bradley (18461913) and Edith Cooper (18621914)]
- OT alone
in Palestine those blessed Feet have trod,
- For I catch their print,
- I have seen their dint
- On a plot of chalky ground,
- Little villas dotted round;
- On a sea-worn waste,
- Where a priest, in haste,
- Passeth with the Blessèd Sacrament to one dying, frail,
- Through the yarrow, past the tamarisk, and the plaited snail:
- Bright upon the grass I see
- Bleeding Feet of Calvary--
- And I worship, and I clasp them round!
- On this bit of chalky, English ground,
- Jesu, Thou art found: my God I hail,
- My Lord, my God!
"Where the Blessed Feet Have
Trod" is reprinted from The Oxford Book of English Mystical
Verse. Ed. Nicholson & Lee. Oxford: The Clarendon Press,
1917. |
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