(April 28th to May 8th)
Format: Triple
It held a pretty lass, And all the time I talked with her, I prayed my cup would pass. |
This is from Gethsemane, first published in 1919 after the war, in which a soldier anticipates his approaching death. |
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“Don’t be hard on them … They get worked up … They don’t know what they are doing … Promise” ‘. |
This is from “The Church that was at Antioch”, first published in 19129, and collected in Limits and Renewals. A young Roman administrator, dying from a stab-wound, forgives his fanatical assassin in the words of Jesus. |
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… she turned for a last look. In the distance she saw the man bending over his young plants; and she went away, supposing him to be the gardener. |
This is from “The Gardener”, first published in 1925, in which Helen Turrell visits the grave of her much love ‘nephew’—really her son. |
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