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The Vision Splendid.
And then of his sweetness, referring again to the "Jim Baxter," we have
a wonderful picture of the oft mentioned Comrade in White, who is so
real to the wounded soldiers:
"His face was wondrous pitiful,
But still more wondrous sweet;
And Jim saw holes just like his own
In His white hands and feet;
But His look it was that won Jim's heart,
It was so wondrous sweet.
"'Christ!'--said the dying man once more,
With accent reverent,
He had never said it so before,
But he knew now what Christ meant--"
The Vision Splendid.
Oxenham has great faith in humanity. From time to time we find him
expressing man's kinship with the stars and with God and Christ.
"Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels" this poet takes
seriously, thank God. This word from the Book means something to
him. And so it is in a poem called "In Every Man" we see him finding
Christ in every man:
"In every soul of all mankind
Somewhat of Christ I find,
Somewhat of Christ--and Thee;
For in each one there surely dwells
That something which most surely spells
Life's immortality.
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"And so, for love of Christ--and Thee,
I will not cease to seek and find,
In all mankind,
That hope of immortality
Which dwells so sacramentally
In Christ--and Thee.
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