Saturday, August 8, 2009 Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221
If it be all for naught, for nothingnessAt last, why does God make the world so fair?Why spill this golden splendor out acrossThe western hills, and light the silver lampOf eve? Why give me eyes to see, and soulTo love so strong and deep? Then, with a pangThis brightness stabs me through, and wakes withinRebellious voice to cry against all death?Why set this hunger for eternityTo gnaw my heartstrings through, if death ends all?If death ends all, then evil must be good,Wrong must be right, and beauty ugliness.God is a Judas who betrays His Son,And with a kiss, damns all the world to hell,—If Christ rose not again.
... Anonymous, Unknown soldier, killed in World War I, included in Masterpieces of Religious Verse, James Dalton Morrison, ed., New York: Harper & Bros., 1948, p. 205
(see the book; see also 1 Cor. 15:13-17; John 11:25-26; Acts 17:31; Rom. 4:24-25; 8:11; 10:9; 1 Thess. 4:14; 1 Pet. 1:3-5; more at Beauty, Death, Easter, Eternity, Resurrection, Sight, Wrong)
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