SHEEP AND LAMBS
by: Katharine Tynan Hinkson
(1861-1931)
- LL in the
April morning,
- April airs were abroad;
- The sheep with their little lambs
- Pass'd me by on the road.
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- The sheep with their little lambs
- Pass'd me by on the road;
- All in an April evening
- I thought on the Lamb of God.
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- The lambs were weary, and crying
- With a weak human cry,
- I thought on the Lamb of God
- Going meekly to die.
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- Up in the blue, blue mountains
- Dewy pastures are sweet:
- Rest for the little bodies,
- Rest for the little feet.
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- But for the Lamb of God
- Up on the hill-top green,
- Only a cross of shame
- Two stark crosses between.
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- All in the April evening,
- April airs were abroad;
- I saw the sheep with their lambs,
- And thought on the Lamb of God.
"Sheep and Lambs" is reprinted
from The Oxford Book of Verse. Ed. Arthur Quiller-Couch.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900. |
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