Wishing all readers a good Lent!
Hold fast, all friends of Christ, hold fast:
Keep faith; be not afraid; keep Lent.
All grunged-up souls, all people pent
In pleasure’s prison, bravely cast
Your needless sin aside at last:
Believe the Gospel and repent.
Hold fast, all friends of Christ, hold fast:
Keep faith; be not afraid; keep Lent.
The thirst and hunger will not last,
For by God’s Son, who underwent
the Cross, we know that we are meant
For endless life when pain is past.
Hold fast, all friends of Christ, hold fast.
(D. Newman, Shrove Tuesday, 13 February 2018)
Hold fast, all friends of Christ, hold fast:
Keep faith; be not afraid; keep Lent.
All grunged-up souls, all people pent
In pleasure’s prison, bravely cast
Your needless sin aside at last:
Believe the Gospel and repent.
Hold fast, all friends of Christ, hold fast:
Keep faith; be not afraid; keep Lent.
The thirst and hunger will not last,
For by God’s Son, who underwent
the Cross, we know that we are meant
For endless life when pain is past.
Hold fast, all friends of Christ, hold fast.
Nice to see this fine poem again...your own blog tradition!
ReplyDeleteThank you! I thought it might be an easier tradition to keep up than writing a new one every year...!
DeleteWell, you could change one line every year, and within a mere thirteen years you'd have a whole new poem!
Delete... which is about the rate I write anyway...!
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