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ECCE HOMO !A plaything of man s hate and pride,
All worn and wan,
In mocking purple clad new-dyed
With eager streams of life s red tide
Behold the Man !
And yet, when senseless we, how feels
Each senseless thing!
For though a Caesar's be the seals,
Lo, Christ the yielding rock reveals :
Behold the King !
And now He plans a Wedding-Feast :
Around His Board
Throng good and bad, and great and least,
The wise, the fool, the scribe, the priest :
Behold the Lord !
Yet meekly, in His altared bliss,
He wields no rod,
While saints adore, and scoffers hiss,
And friends embrace, and traitors kiss :
Behold the God !
Rt Rev Msgr Hugh T. Henry
Eucharistica
Verse and Prose in Honour of
THE HIDDEN GOD
[Philadephia: The Dolphin Press, 1912]
