Sunday, September 05, 2010

Gadara and its Swine

Richard Wilbur, poet, wrote this Matthew VIII, 28 ff
which is the story of Jesus casting out demons from humans into a herd of swine which, maddened thereby, plunge themselves to their swinish doom off a cliff. The touching love of the men of Gadara for their property - in this case, the swine - reminds me of some other people I know.

           ....
We shall not, however, resign
Our trust in the high-heaped table and the full trough.
If You cannot cure us without destroying our swine,
We had rather You shoved off.

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4 comments:

  1. UnknownSunday, September 12, 2010 1:39:00 PM

    Wonderful! It's going in my commonplace book.

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  2. MontagThursday, September 16, 2010 3:36:00 AM

    Wow. A commonplace book. I thought they went the way of embroidery samplers and antimacassars.

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  3. UnknownFriday, September 17, 2010 4:01:00 AM

    You regularly drive me to the dictionary. "Antimacassars" indeed!

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  4. MontagSaturday, September 18, 2010 3:09:00 AM

    I live in the world of "O, Brother, Where Art Thou?"

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