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+------ Thema: THE CRITICS AT GETHSEMANE. (/showthread.php?tid=19655)
THE CRITICS AT GETHSEMANE. - ZaunköniG - 27.12.2010
THE CRITICS AT GETHSEMANE.
Even here we meet the Critics. The deep grief,
Which all imaginative Art would faint
To express—the Angel's visit of relief —
The God bow'd earthward like some mourning saint-
They tone down all in their unhappy way ;
Distilling rose-tints from their Saviour's blood,
The God-man's sweat of anguish ! to portray
Their sweet young Syrian—so divinely good,
' We must forgive His worshippers,' they say ;
Not so the Church ! and tho' she needs must blush
At her own feeble handling, yet alway,
When she would paint her Master's darkest day.
She takes the fuU-hued life-drop on her brush,
And works, in simple faith, as best she may.