Poems

Chapter 27: "LAZARUS, COME FORTH."

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This collection gathers lyrical pieces that trace the day's and year's cycles, moving through sunrise, morning, noonday, sunset, moonlight and seasonal scenes. It pairs brief landscape lyrics with sonnets, songs, and occasional narrative ballads, blending vivid natural description—mountains, streams, birds, and coastal views—with meditative reflections on mortality, faith, memory, and poetic ambition. The tone alternates between pastoral celebration and sober contemplation, favoring clear sensory detail, moral sentiment, and accessible stanza forms that foreground feeling and observation over formal experimentation.

"LAZARUS, COME FORTH."

Thus Jesus spoke—the earth dismayed

Opened its womb;

The dead man heard, his Lord obeyed;

He left his tomb:

And thousands, unbelievers, saw

The power of God;

Then they believed his holy law,

And word, that burst the sod.

Thus when he frees the wicked heart

From earth's control,

Sin and ungodliness depart

From the waked soul.

He cleans it by his blood and death—

To it is given

To know, all peace, all hope, all faith,

All ante-taste of heaven.