Religion

Missa Viatoris (In dread of Famine)

by Arthur Shearly Cripps 1869–1952

From The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, ed. D. H. S. Nicholson and A. H. E. Lee (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1917)

Religion

Here, Pan, on grey rock slab we set for Thee
Thy Feast— the White Cake and the Red in Cup-
Shepherd and Lamb, we, lost goats, offer up
In pastoral wise Thine own Divinity.

The scared moon dips, the hardy sun comes up
To spy our Secret from yon cloudy hill:
O Pan that Thou by cloud and sun mayst fill
Our hills with food, we lift Thy Cake and Cup.

Heart of all good in men and beasts and earth,
Here on the hill our hearts, we lift them up:
Life-Blood and Flesh— White Cake and Red in Cup—
We break and pour Thee for our drought and dearth!

MLA

Cripps, Arthur Shearly. “Missa Viatoris (In dread of Famine).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cripps/1/.

Chicago

Cripps, Arthur Shearly. “Missa Viatoris (In dread of Famine).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cripps/1/.

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