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Fourteen Lines for the Challenger
« on: April 17, 2018, 05:16:05 PM »
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    •        For St. Edmund Campion (1540-1581)
     
    They would not let you speak. Sometimes the truth
    Must hide; more often it is hid. The right’s
    Constrained by circuмstance: soft hands with ruth
    Sequester it, in priest holes where no light
    Wrestles with light, the dark uncomprehending,
    Until its weathered hands can grab and seize
    Where ruthlessness has leave for its offending,
    Past conscience, in the room of Little Ease.
    They would not let you speak. Your speaking then
    Had opened doors that they must keep well closed:
    Wrong answers are inside. Some hiding men
    Dwell in a world where questions die, unposed.
        But your repose is sweet, your words came good,
        Where works speak more than words, on Tyburn’s wood.
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    Rom. 3:25 Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins" 

    Apoc 17:17 For God hath given into their hearts to do that which pleaseth him: that they give their kingdom to the beast, till the words of God be fulfilled.
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