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Poems:
Old and New
by
Frederick George Scott
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CAVALRY.
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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. [Page 98]
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 tomb.
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;
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Centuries pass like a flood, but the Rock of our
Strength is abiding,
Grounded in depths of eternity,
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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. [Page 100]
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