Poem July 24, 1965 Issue

SONG OF SIMEON

Luke 2:25-38

Geoffrey J. Barratt

Simeon,
devout and just,

with Truth-touched vision
outcompassed the marveling parent view.
He saw sharp-etched

the Christ-child's mission,
and Israel's consolation knew.
Simeon,
seeing the Christ—

a light to lighten,
illumine men,
Truth's ever-nascent Son
come that falsity might fall,
the real be raised—

could Simeon, then,
be after-gloomed by dark of death?
And Anna,
following, had prayed and fasted long—

had emptied heart and mind
of matter's
deadening clutter —

and joyed to echo now
just Simeon's prophetic song.

Geoffrey J. Barratt

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