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Christ the King
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A GOSPEL TREASURY
Poems Based on Lectionary Gospels
What kind of a Kingdom has Jesus?
No castle nor palace has he.
No congress nor parliament sitting,
deciding what laws there will be.
Perhaps he has need of but two laws:
Love God and your neighbor as well.
To obey them is all that is needed,
as all of the saintly can tell.
He has neither army nor navy,
no air force to guard the frontiers
to keep out the strangers unwanted
and maintain the enemy’s fears.
Immigration he seems to encourage,
of some quite disreputable,
like fishermen, publicans, sinners.
No castle nor palace has he.
No congress nor parliament sitting,
deciding what laws there will be.
Perhaps he has need of but two laws:
Love God and your neighbor as well.
To obey them is all that is needed,
as all of the saintly can tell.
He has neither army nor navy,
no air force to guard the frontiers
to keep out the strangers unwanted
and maintain the enemy’s fears.
Immigration he seems to encourage,
of some quite disreputable,
like fishermen, publicans, sinners.
