The Good Shepherd With The Kid

Matthew Arnold 1822 (Laleham) – 1888 (Liverpool)



_He saves the sheep, the goats he doth not save._
So rang Tertullian's sentence, on the side
Of that unpitying Phrygian Sect which cried:
'Him can no fount of fresh forgiveness lave,

Who sins, once washed by the baptismal wave.'--
So spake the fierce Tertullian. But she sighed,
The infant Church! of love she felt the tide
Stream on her from her Lord's yet recent grave.

And then she smiled; and in the Catacombs,
With eye suffused but heart inspired true,
On those walls subterranean, where she hid

Her head in ignominy, death, and tombs,
She her good Shepherd's hasty image drew--
And on his shoulders, not a lamb, a kid.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 27, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABBA ABBA XCD XCD
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 619
Words 115
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3

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