{"id":1032,"date":"2009-08-23T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mcnamarasblog\/2009\/08\/catholic-poetry-34\/"},"modified":"2009-08-23T07:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T07:22:00","slug":"catholic-poetry-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mcnamarasblog\/2009\/08\/catholic-poetry-34.html","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_vjlTTnUPlbc\/SpEmuwzhc3I\/AAAAAAAACKg\/e2H3m9c4e5k\/s1600-h\/Meynell.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_vjlTTnUPlbc\/SpEmuwzhc3I\/AAAAAAAACKg\/e2H3m9c4e5k\/s320\/Meynell.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <strong>CHRIST IN THE UNIVERSE<br>By Alice Meynell<br><\/strong>With this ambiguous earth His dealings have been told us. These abide: The signal to a maid, the human birth, The lesson, and the young Man crucified.\n<p>But not a star of all The innumerable host of stars has heard How He administered this terrestrial ball. Our race have kept their Lord\u2019s entrusted Word.<\/p>\n<p>Of His earth-visiting feet None knows the secret, cherished, perilous, The terrible, shamefast, frightened, whispered, sweet, Heart-shattering secret of His way with us.<\/p>\n<p>No planet knows that this Our wayside planet, carrying land and wave, Love and life multiplied, and pain and bliss, Bears, as chief treasure, one forsaken grave.<\/p>\n<p>Nor, in our little day, May His devices with the heavens be guessed, His pilgrimage to thread the Milky Way, Or His bestowals there be manifest.<\/p>\n<p>But, in the eternities, Doubtless we shall compare together, hear A million alien Gospels, in what guise He trod the Pleiades, the Lyre, the Bear.<\/p>\n<p>O be prepared, my soul! To read the inconceivable, to scan The million forms of God those stars unroll When, in our turn, we show to them a Man. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHRIST IN THE UNIVERSEBy Alice MeynellWith this ambiguous earth His dealings have been told us. These abide: The signal to a maid, the human birth, The lesson, and the young Man crucified. But not a star of all The innumerable host of stars has heard How He administered this terrestrial ball. 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