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Poems

[Written for the Journal]

THE MARRIAGE FEAST

From the May 1923 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Love spread the feast, then bade me come and eat,
Drink the sweet wine, and taste the heavenly bread;
But I did eat the fruits of emptiness,
And drank of dreams instead.

Within the deepness of this cup lay grief,
Regret, and hidden bitterness and pain;
Across the hurrying phantom of the years,
Love called to me again.

"I cannot enter now," I cried. "My robes
Are marred and stained with selfishness and sin."
Love heard me not, but smiled, and evermore
Bade me with joy come in.

But still I doubted, fearing to obey.
"I, the unworthy, with no wedding dress?"
Yet I drew ever nearer, unawares,
Drawn by such tenderness.

Love took and gathered me in shining folds
Of that dear grace, sufficient for the least
Or lowliest guest; and thus it was I sat
At that great marriage feast.

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