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This resource relating to Hebrews 2:10-18 provides a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar highlighting the ability to sympathize with being trapped and a poem by Lucille Clifton highlighting familiarity.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading: Hebrews 2: 10-18
CLASSIC POEM:
Sympathy
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Found in:
The Complete Poems of
Paul Laurence Dunbar
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
And the river flows like a stream of glass;
When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,
And the faint perfume from its chalice steals–
I know what the caged bird feels!
I know why the caged bird beats his wing
Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;
For he must fly back to his perch and cling
When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;
And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars
And they pulse again with a keener sting–
I know why he beats his wing!
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,
When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,–
When he beats his bars and he would be free;
It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings–
I know why the caged bird sings!
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
sisters
lucille clifton
SNIPPET:
me and you be sisters.
we be the same.
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Key Scriptures:
Hebrews 2:10-18
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Year A First Sunday after Christmas Day