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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 09:15:04 -0700
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- From: "John W. Woolley" <jww@EVOLVING.COM>
- Subject: Holy Innocents
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- On this feast of the Holy Innocents, I offer a sonnet I wrote many
- years ago.
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- A Sonnet for Holy Innocents
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- For voiceless nameless murdered in the sleep
- before their first awaking, let my voice
- serve to say "I believe", the tears I weep
- for them be baptism, and my will's free choice
- be choice to them that had none. Any merit
- of mine, evil suffered or good done,
- account as theirs. Let us as one inherit --
- all dead in Adam -- the kingdom of thy Son.
- Save us together! Fill my desperate need
- for purity by their pure mortal pain,
- and use what I have, Bread and Church and Creed,
- to raise and comfort these unkindly slain.
- Them and me housel in one single host,
- thou Mary's child, enfleshed by the Holy Ghost.
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- -- Fr. John Woolley
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