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Show g M THE NAZERENE'S REBUKE. Sale" Christ our Lord, "I will go and see How the men, my brethren, believe in me. Hepatsed outapain through the irate of birth. Ana made himself known ts the cnilddren of earth. With carpets of gold the ground they spread 'Wherever the Son of Man should tread, And in palace. chambers lofty and rare They lodged him and served him with kingly fare. But still wherever his steps they led. The Lord in sorrow bent down his head, And from under the toundation-stones. The son of Mary heard bitter groans. . And iu church and palace and judgment hall. He marked great fissures that rem the wall, And opened wider and yet more wide ; As the Hying foundation heaved and sighed. "Have ye fouaded ycur throues and altars, then, On the bodies and souls of living men? And think ye that building shall e.idure, Which shelters the noble and crushes the poor I With gates of silver and bars of gold Ye have fenced my sheep from their Father's fold ; I have heard the dropping of their tears In heaven these eighteen hundred yuars.'' jamfs Russell Lowell. j- u.. |
