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The
Gates of Time and Other Poems
by
Frederick George Scott
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CALVARY
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O
SORROWFUL heart of humanity, foiled in thy fight
for dominion,
Bowed with the burden of emptiness, blackened
with passion and woe;
Here is a faith that will bear thee on waft of
omnipotent pinion,
Up to the heaven of victory, there to be known
and to know.
Here is the vision of Calvary,
crowned with the world’s revelation,
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Throned in the grandeur of gloom and the thunders
that quicken the dead;
A meteor of hope in the darkness shines forth
like a new constellation,
Dividing the night of our sorrow, revealing a
path as we tread.
Now are the portals of death by
the feet of the Conqueror entered;
Flames of the sun in his setting roll over the
city of doom,
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And
robe in imperial purple the Body triumphantly
centred,
Naked and white between thieves and ’mid
ghosts that have crept from the
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tomb.
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O Soul, that art lost in immensity, craving for
light and despairing,
Here is the hand of the Crucified, pulses of love
in its veins,
Human as ours in its touch, with the sinews of
Deity bearing
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The zones of the pendulous planets, the weight
of the winds and the rains.
Here in the Heart of the Crucified, find thee
a refuge and hiding,
Love at the core of the universe, guidance and
peace in the night;
Centuries pass like a flood, but the Rock of our
Strength is abiding,
Grounded in depths of eternity, girt with a mantle
of light.
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Lo, as we wonder and worship, the night of the
doubts that conceal Him,
Rolls from the face of the dawn till His rays
through the cloud-fissures slope;
Vapours that hid are condensed to the dews of
His grace that reveal Him,
And shine with His light on the hills as we mount
in the splendour of hope.
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