Poem May 28, 1949 Issue

PAUL

Winthrop Pitt Tryon

Foreign things
Met rebuff
On Mars' Hill,
When an orator errant,
With Roman warrant,
In accent odd—
Touch of Cilician—
Harangued the populace,
Hard by the Acropolis,
Whose vesture
Shone,
Pediment and portal,
In beauty mortal.

A gesture:
"The unknown God."
Hush,
Suspicion:
And enough
Till times are riper.

What the Athenians will, they will;
But the hand that stirred their Stoic underbrush,
Where lurked a viper,
Shall yet sew tents
And set the Christ cornerstone
Among the Corinthians.

Winthrop Pitt Tryon

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