Religion
'Where the Blessed Feet Have Trod'
From The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, ed. D. H. S. Nicholson and A. H. E. Lee (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1917)
Not alone in Palestine those blessed Feet have trod,
For I catch their print,
I have seen their dint
On a plot of chalky ground,
Little villas dotted round;
On a sea-worn waste,
Where a priest, in haste,
Passeth with the Blessed Sacrament to one dying, frail,
Through the yarrow, past the tamarisk, and the plaited
snail:
Bright upon the grass I see
Bleeding Feet of Calvary —
And I worship, and I clasp them round!
On this bit of chalky, English ground,
Jesu, Thou art found: my God I hail,
My Lord, my God!
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MLA
Field, Michael. “'Where the Blessed Feet Have Trod'.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/213/.
Chicago
Field, Michael. “'Where the Blessed Feet Have Trod'.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/213/.
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