Poem July 17, 1971 Issue

PAUL'S WAY TO ROME

P. Rhodes Bowen

Truly he loved his fellowmen
this zealous one, this Saul
become Paul in a moment of revelation:
a moment of light that shone
on his darkened zeal,
illuming his way and the paths he chose,
and the roads that led to Rome
and to future Romes of earth.
Hearing, he heard and
seeing, he saw: then walked—
walked with true zeal and sight,
the Appian Way to Rome.
Christlike his faith; true vision
winged his steps over hard
despotic stones of pride and sin—
now hot, now cold. How pure
the gratitude through which to see
their falseness! to see in their stead
foundation stones for purer lives,
foundations that he, himself, must lay—
could lay with understanding now—
teaching the Master's way of love:
this way Paul took to Rome.

P. Rhodes Bowen

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