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Vesper-Song Of The Reverend Samuel Marsden

MY cure of souls, my cage of brutes, Go lick and learn at these my boots! When tainted highways tear a hole, I bid my cobbler welt the sole. O, ye that wear the boots of Hell, Shall I not welt a soul as well? O, souls that leak with holes of sin, Shall I not let God's leather in, Or hit with sacramental knout Your twice-convicted vileness out? Lord,

I have sung with ceaseless lips A tinker's litany of whips, Have graved another Testament On backs bowed down and bodies bent. My stripes of jewelled blood repeat A scarlet Grace for holy meat. Not mine, the Hand that writes the weal On this, my vellum of puffed veal, Not mine, the glory that endures, But Yours, dear God, entirely Yours. Are there not Saints in holier skies Who have been scourged to Paradise? O,

Lord, when I have come to that, Grant there may be a Heavenly Cat With twice as many tails as here— And make me,

God,

Your Overseer. But if the veins of Saints be dead, Grant me a whip in Hell instead, Where blood is not so hard to fetch. But I,

Lord, am Your humble wretch.

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Kenneth Slessor

Kenneth Adolphe Slessor OBE (27 March 1901 – 30 June 1971) was an Australian poet, journalist and official war correspondent in World War II. He…

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