Sermon 12-18-11 With Us, Apart from Us

“Every Stone Shall Cry” Richard Wilbur

A stable-lamp is lighted

Whose glow shall wake the sky;

The stars shall bend their voices,

And every stone shall cry.

And straw like gold shall shine;

A barn shall harbor heaven,

A stalk become a shrine.

This child through David’s city

Shall ride in triumph by;

The palm shall strew its branches,

And every stone shall cry.

Though heavy, dull, and dumb,

And lie within the roadway

To pave his kingdom come.

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Yet he shall be forsaken,

And yielded up to die;

The sky shall groan and darken,

And every stone shall cry

For stony hearts of men:

God’s blood upon the spearhead,

God’s love refused again.

But now as at the ending,

The low is lifted high;

The stars shall bend their voices,

And every stone shall cry

In praises of the child

By whose descent among us

The worlds are reconciled.

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