Poem March 4, 1950 Issue

LIKE CHILDREN IN THE MARKET PLACE

Luke 7:32

Pearl Strachan Hurd

"It sounds like something I could use. I know
He fed the crowd. My cousin told me so.
I hear about him everywhere I go."
"You hear about him? Do you not recall
That day you sat beside me on the wall
And saw the lepers cured?"

"Yes. Tell me all.
I need it in my work. I think I should
Be making better lamps."

"Your lamps are good."
"Perhaps I need a better neighborhood
To sell them in. Now, tell me, if you care,
How I may put to use his kind of prayer.
Why don't you answer? Why do you stand and stare?"
"If you had understood, I should not need
To point out how completely they were freed—
Those you saw cured—of ignorance and greed."

Pearl Strachan Hurd

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