Poem March 17, 1980 ISSUE

"Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment"

RUSHWORTH M. KIDDER

Seamless, the knitlight, the coat fitto un-king the great and robe the humble, brightspinning of grace in a tattered place, a sightlike a fourth man walking at Shadrach's sideso brilliantly that the white-hot coalsfaded to shadow and might have been cold.

Make mine, Love, from a similar clothwashed, on the loom of the Lamb, no clawbeneath the wool, no savage toothor tongue to lash back at the deviled and fire-mad tyrant.Just unillusioned trust: the Christ apparent,the knit coat smokeless,the shining seemless.

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