The Everlasting Gospel by William Black Full Poem Text
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(William Blake)
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision‟s greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like thine; Mine has a snub nose like to mine. Thine is the Friend of all Mankind; Mine speaks in parables to the blind. Thine loves the same world that mine hates; Thy heaven doors are my hell gates. Socrates taught what Meletus Loath‟d as a nation‟s bitterest curse, And Caiaphas was in his own mind A benefactor to mankind. Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read‟st black where I read white. Was Jesus gentle, or did He Give any marks of gentility? When twelve years old He ran away, And left His parents in dismay. When after three days‟ sorrow found, Loud as Sinai‟s trumpet-sound: „No earthly parents I confess— My Heavenly Father‟s business! Ye under…