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| Edith Sitwell |
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| Still Falls The Rain The Raids, 1940. Night and Dawn | ||||
| Still falls the Rain - Dark as the world of man, black as our loss - Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails Upon the Cross. Still falls the Rain With a sound like the pulse of the heart that is changed to the hammer-beat In the Potterīs Field, and the sound of the impious feet On the Tomb: Still falls the Rain in the Field of Blood where the small hopes breed and the human brain Nurtures its greed, that worm with the brow of Cain. Still falls the Rain At the feet of the Starved man hung upon the Cross. Christ that each day, each night, nails there, have mercy on us - On Dives and on Lazarus: Under the Rain the sore and the gold are as one. Still falls the Rain - Still falls the Blood from the Starved Manīs wounded Side: He bears His Heart all wounds, -those of the light that died, The last faint spark In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending dark, The wounds of the baited bear, - The blind and weeping bear whom the keepers beat On his helpless flesh ... the tears of the hunted hare. Still falls the Rain - Then - O Ile leape up to my God: who pulles me doune - See, see where Christīs blood streames in the firmament: It flows from the Brow we nailed upon the tree Deep to the dying, to the thirsting heart That holds the fires of the world - dark-smirched with pain As Caesarīs laurel crown. The sounds the voice of One who likes the heart of man Was once a child who among beasts has lain - "Still do I love, still shed my innocent light, my Blood, for thee." |
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