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Advent 3
Poems
A GOSPEL TREASURY
Poems Based on Lectionary Gospels
There are many men seek power
and pursue it all their lives,
while another man seeks glory
and for it he always strives.
For John, Baptizer, neither one
was what in life he sought.
‘Twas shown by what he practiced
just as well as what he taught.
Out in the wilderness he called
the people to repent.
To make a way for God to come
he said that he was sent.
And he called men to the Jordan,
there to listen and to pray
as they confessed and asked the Lord
to wash their sins away.
and pursue it all their lives,
while another man seeks glory
and for it he always strives.
For John, Baptizer, neither one
was what in life he sought.
‘Twas shown by what he practiced
just as well as what he taught.
Out in the wilderness he called
the people to repent.
To make a way for God to come
he said that he was sent.
And he called men to the Jordan,
there to listen and to pray
as they confessed and asked the Lord
to wash their sins away.
