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This resource relating to 2 Corinthians 3:12-18, 4:1-2 provides poems by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) and Langston Hughes (1901-1967) highlighting the desire and need for freedom.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2
CLASSIC POEM:
Emancipation
Emily Dickinson
No rack can torture me,
My soul’s at liberty
Behind this mortal bone
There knits a bolder one
You cannot prick with saw,
Nor rend with scymitar.
Two bodies therefore be;
Bind one, and one will flee.
The eagle of his nest
No easier divest
And gain the sky,
Than mayest thou,
Except thyself may be
Thine enemy;
Captivity is consciousness,
So’s liberty.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Freedom
Langston Hughes
SNIPPET:
Freedom will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.
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2 Corinthians 3:12-18, 4:1-2
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Year C Transfiguration Sunday