“A lively understandable spirit
Once entertained you.
It will come again.
Be still.
Wait.”
The Lost Son," ll. 168-172
The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)
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“You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.”
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Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Context: Once again I say that with death Jesus conquered death, and rose from the grave a spirit and a power. And He walked in our solitude and visited the gardens of our passion.
He lies not there in that cleft rock behind the stone.
We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth.