Good Friday [poem]
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Part of The Carolinian
- Title
- Good Friday [poem]
- Creator
- De La Ricca, Ricardo
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1965
- Rights
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- Fulltext
- ^ke jealous ^eacl by c. y. enge 3. The present self is very bold A being with a fearless shadow Its endless pursuit of a spiritual hold Rips through the gloom of the Immense structures of the years. Slices the subterranean tombs The cathedrals of the weeping bones And labelled the spectrum of sombre Still life Whispering in hushed refrain The evanescent dreams of the stubborn gods! Now we live with the movements Of eternity’s heavenly hymns Replete with thankful prayers To the Divine Shepherd of all times And like meek lambs we follow Him For He leads us to a pasture forever green. And this is but an obvious manifestation Of the triumph of the Holy Cross This is but an obvious manifestation Of the triumph of the Holy Cross! Q.00A ^Jciclay by ricardo de la i lva on the brink of despair my life hangs limp. alone, alone with the beating of my heart i bleed: loneliness gnaws at my mangled existence. frantic i search for god! for his face is hidden from me. to the man at my left i turn my head, “remember me,” my crushed lips utter in plea. he replies: “come, stay with me in paradise.” before the early courts did once proclaim across the calm without a single lane to give what chanced-upon a Christian name beyond the calm commerce was not profane: though it was without a heavenly name: the age was golden as the natural rains and lovely the living and the dying abed hills of rock and grass, surviving clinging as shell to pearl with love and hale clinging in jealous guard o’er heaven’s gate though heaven was where then a nameless state. the proud beneficiaries of that age who have brightened from the long bonded cage long since in curious alien wonder gazed at galleons emerging to solicit rage have learned from philip to see without haze. it could have been a day of great rejoice with less foreplay of many a great noise Io heal wounded continent beyond physical boundaries of Chinese land: such task began in fifteen-twentv-one the mustard did grow in fifteen-sixty-five four and forty years of struggle and flight till today from galilee seed to tree of enduring oak—foe to heresy — there is no nobler end to nobler intent an edenward quest without fiscal end. ged is unprecedented who is wise a shiver of wind, in various device of sea-life like fish, and land-wealth like rice a symbol in fifteen-sixty-eight of fruit no more in silence enjoyed when isabel—niece of datu tupaz with legaspi’s man sacrainented love enjoying earth in the domain of god the abolition of liinasawa where before the mass of valderama this and where more in ignorant content come in conscious strife sans conscious contempt who has ever hoped is hoped still for man neither he nor his laws could prevent the prime reason of thing, the evely plan nor cause such a jealous cause to be rent. commerce in god’s oriental marketplace beams busy with his unseen effectual face in ecumenic earthly phase it seems a realization of catholic dreams theirs and ours, all the lovely jealous pearls have seen, held the hour in unison — dear. March-April, 1965 THE CAROLINIAN Page Forty-one