The Forerunner: His Parables and Poems

Yea, I enjoyed you all, the large and the pygmy, the leper and the anointed, and him who gropes in the dead of night at the same time him who dances his days upon the mountains. "You, the robust, have I enjoyed, notwithstanding the marks of your iron hoofs are but upon my flesh; and also you the vulnerable, even though you could have tired my religion and wasted my endurance. "You the wealthy have I enjoyed, whereas sour was once your honey to my mouth; and also you the negative, even though you knew my empty-handed disgrace. "You the poet with the bowed lute and blind hands, you've got I enjoyed in self-indulgence; and also you the coed ever accumulating rotted shrouds in potters' fields. "You the priest i've got enjoyed, who take a seat within the silences of the day past wondering the destiny of my day after today; and also you the worshippers of gods the pictures of your individual wants. "You the thirsting lady whose cup is ever complete, i've got enjoyed in figuring out; and also you the lady of stressed nights, you too i've got enjoyed in pity. "You the talkative have I enjoyed, asserting, 'Life hath a lot to say'; and also you the dumb have I enjoyed, whispering to myself, 'Says he now not in silence that which I fain could pay attention in phrases? " "And you the pass judgement on and the critic, i've got enjoyed additionally; but in case you have visible me crucified, you acknowledged, 'He bleeds rhythmically, and the development his blood makes upon his white dermis is gorgeous to behold. ' "Yea, i've got enjoyed you all, the younger and the outdated, the trembling reed and the oak. "But, unluckily, it used to be the over-abundance of my middle that grew to become you from me. you will drink love from a cup, yet now not from a surging river. you'll pay attention love's faint murmur, but if love shouts you are going to muffle your ears. "And simply because i've got enjoyed you all you've acknowledged, 'Too tender and yielding is his middle, and too undiscerning is his direction. it's the love of a needy one, who choices crumbs while he sits at kingly feasts. And it's the love of a weakling, for the powerful loves purely the powerful. " "And simply because i've got enjoyed you overmuch you've gotten stated, 'It is however the love of a blind guy who is familiar with no longer the great thing about one nor the ugliness of one other. And it's the love of the bland who beverages vinegar at the same time wine. And it's the love of the impertinent and the overweening, for what stranger should be our dad and mom and sister and brother? ' "This you've got stated, and extra. for sometimes within the market-place you pointed your hands at me and stated sarcastically, 'There is going the ageless one, the guy with no seasons, who on the midday hour performs video games with our youngsters and at eventide sits with our elders and assumes knowledge and figuring out. ' "And I stated, 'I will love them extra. Aye, much more. i'll cover my love with seeming to hate, and conceal my tenderness as bitterness. i'll put on an iron masks, and basically while armed and mailed shall I search them. ' "Then I laid a heavy hand upon your bruises, and prefer a tempest within the evening I thundered on your ears. "From the housetop I proclaimed you hypocrites, Pharisees, tricksters, fake and empty earth-bubbles. "The short-sighted between you I cursed for blind bats, and people too close to the earth I likened to soulless moles.