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This resource relating to Romans 9:1-5 provides a poem by Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) highlighting the victims of war and a poem by Jill Alexander Essbaum highlighting grief over the loss of loved ones.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading: Romans 9:1-5
CLASSIC POEM:
The Valley of Unrest
Edgar Allen Poe
Once it smiled a silent dell
Where the people did not dwell;
They had gone unto the wars,
Trusting to the mild-eyed stars,
Nightly, from their azure towers,
To keep watch above the flowers,
In the midst of which all day
The red sun-light lazily lay.
Now each visitor shall confess
The sad valley’s restlessness.
Nothing there is motionless—
Nothing save the airs that brood
Over the magic solitude.
Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees
That palpitate like the chill seas
Around the misty Hebrides!
Ah, by no wind those clouds are driven
That rustle through the unquiet Heaven
Uneasily, from morn till even,
Over the violets there that lie
In myriad types of the human eye—
Over the lilies there that wave
And weep above a nameless grave!
They wave:—from out their fragrant tops
External dews come down in drops.
They weep:—from off their delicate stems
Perennial tears descend in gems.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Easter
Jill Alexander Essbaum
SNIPPET:
is my season
of defeat.
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Romans 9:1-5
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year A Proper 13 (Ordinary Time 18)
Date:
Monday, July 31, 2023