Versos English G. K. Chesterton Good Friday

English poem

Good Friday

by (1874–1936)

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And well may God with the serving folk Cast in His dreadful lot. Is not He too a servant, And is not He forgot?

Wherefore was God in Golgotha Slain as a serf is slain; And hate He had of prince and peer, And love He had and made good cheer, Of them that, like this woman here, Go powerfully in pain.

'Ballad of Alfred.'