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In Green Pastures
HARDCOVER
- GenresPoetry
110 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1959
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January 7, 2024
I picked this up at a book sale because I love poetry and because the book was the perfect size to fit in my hands for bedtime reading. It is a book of devotional poetry loosely based on Psalm 23. The poems were written in the 195os and have not aged well. A few of them were lovely, but others were very sing-song-y.
Sample:
The Lord of earth and heaven,
of all things great and small,
He is my faithful shepherd;
I shall not want at all.
I shall not want green pastures
In which my heart may rest
And find, by living waters,
New strength for every test.
Some were so message-laden that they lacked beauty such as this line from "Turn Not Away":
I may not give to all who ask of me
The thing they ask; a sleekly gleaming knife
Might please a small boy momentarily -
And cause a wound that he would bear for life...
Ugh!
Sample:
The Lord of earth and heaven,
of all things great and small,
He is my faithful shepherd;
I shall not want at all.
I shall not want green pastures
In which my heart may rest
And find, by living waters,
New strength for every test.
Some were so message-laden that they lacked beauty such as this line from "Turn Not Away":
I may not give to all who ask of me
The thing they ask; a sleekly gleaming knife
Might please a small boy momentarily -
And cause a wound that he would bear for life...
Ugh!
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