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Jesus heals a Leper
"Unclean Unclean" - went the beggar's shout,
To keep the passers-by on high alarm,
To take another and much safer route,
Or make a turn and take a round about,
Should they be anxious not to come to harm.
Entreating passers-by to stay away
From the most loathful leper colony,
With all the lepers with a skin of clay,
Or white behind their shrowds by night and day.
To hide their repulsive corporeity.
Rejected by their own community,
The lepers are from everyone cut off,
From siblings, kin, old friends and family,
And from affection's warmth, and amity,
From the warm hand shake and embrace of love.
"Lord of thou willst please make me clean, Lord please!
The outcast beggar leper low prostrate,
Begged for deliverance from dread desease,
"And let my faith and love for you increase,
My hungry soul to fill and well to sate."
Ans Jesus touched the Leper without dread,
Touched rotting flesh,- a thing so unheard of,
And Lo! the man's flesh shining rosy red,
Was now afresh with strength and vigor clad,
To praise the Mercy of the Lord of Love.
Elizabeth Dandy
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