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 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was a hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not."

Then shall they also answer him, saying, "Lord, when saw we thee a hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?"

Then shall he answer them, saying, "Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me."

The Easter Children

(From "The Frozen Grail and other Poems")

(See page 315)

"Christ the Lord is risen!" Chant the Easter children, Their love-moulded faces Luminous with gladness, And their costly raiment Gleaming like the lilies.

But last night I wandered Where Christ had not risen, Where love knows no gladness, Where the lord of Hunger Leaves no room for lilies, And no time for childhood.