“He comes, and his face is sad and mild,
With thorns his head is crowned;
There are great bleeding wounds in his feet,
And in each hand a wound.
How can I tell, who am a fool,
If this be Christ or no?
Those bleeding hands outstretched to me!
Those eyes that love me so!”

— Joyce Kilmer

Main Street and Other Poems (1917), The Robe of Christ

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American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier 1886–1918

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