He taught with great simplicity of word
Amidst the neighboring fields of waving corn;
And every earnest follower who heard,
Went quietly away, a man newborn.
Serene he walked where stormy billows flung
Themselves upon the shores of Galilee,
Unloosed with stern rebuke the stammering tongue,
And caused the worldly blinded eyes to see.
As on the mountaintop he sat apart
And heard the freedom of the sparrow's song,
He learned the lesson of God's care. His heart
Yearned tenderly toward the listening throng.
While mingling with the multitude each day,
He lived the truth, and ever as he trod
Beheld, instead of sinning mortal clay,
The image of his Father-Mother God.
Within the shadowed stillness of the tomb,
He drank anew of Spirit's living breath,
Thus bringing proof of man's eternal bloom,
The utter unreality of death.
